Quotes About Defiance

Don't talk about life or death She said I've had enough of both A girl called Johnny who Was not scared They would have torn her to pieces but Who would dare?

In the broad field of Russian letters in the USSR, I was the one and only literary wolf. I was advised to dye my fur. Absurd advice. You can dye a wolf, clip a wolf - he still doesn't look like a poodle. - to Joseph Stalin, May 30, 1931

What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!" And that one, imagine, smiles and says: "Devil take you? That, in fact, can be done!" And—bang!

Jedino Å¡to nam preostaje pobuna je protiv sudbine koju nismo izabrali.

Quem quer «elevar-se» continuamente deve esperar um dia ter vertigens. O que é a vertigem? O medo de cair? Mas porque temos nós vertigens num miradouro protegido com um parapeito? A vertigem não é o medo de cair, é outra coisa. É a voz do vazio por debaixo de nós que nos atrai e nos enfeitiça, o desejo de queda do qual nos defendemos depois com pavor.

He knew perfectly well that his petition would not help the prisoners. His true goal was not to free to prisoners; it was to show that people without fear still exist.

E qualcos'altro lo elevava: teneva sul tavolo un libro aperto. In quel bar nessuno aveva mai aperto un libro sul tavolo. Un libro era per Tereza il segno di riconoscimento di una fratellanza segreta. Contro il mondo della volgarità che la circondava, essa aveva infatti un'unica difesa: i libri che prendeva in prestito alla biblioteca comunale…

Ne serait-ce qu'une ridicule illusion, on est persuadé d'écrire parce qu'on a à dire ce que personne n'a dit...Ecrire , c'est donc le plaisir de contredire, le bonheur d'être seul contre tous, la joie de provoquer ses ennemis et d'irriter ses amis.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? Then why do we feel it even when the observation tower comes equipped with a sturdy handrail? No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

This had always been repugnant to him, and he rebelled against that servitude by at least refusing to give women his soul, by safeguarding his freedom and solitude

Daarom betekende romanschrijver zijn voor mij meer dan het beoefenen van een van de vele 'literaire genres'; het was een houding, een weten, een positie, een positie die elke identificatie met een politiek, met een religie, met een ideologie, met een moraal of een collectiviteit uitslot; een bewuste, hardnekkige, woedende niet-identificatie, niet opgevat als ontsnapping of passiviteit, maar als verzet, als uitdaging, als revolte.

You hurt any of us or those we love again and so help me, I won't stop until I've pulled you into so many pieces, you'll think you've been through a grinder. (Fang)

They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.

Love is the ultimate outlaw.

We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.

It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.

Love isn't a weakness.

He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.

She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it

Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.

Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?""Are you calling me stupid?""Yes, but in a more poetic way!""Well, here's a poem for you. Get lost!

Well my gun fires seven different shades of shit, so what's your favorite color, punk?

break the rules pay the price

We may be doomed, but why not enjoy ourselves? It will lessen the victory of our adversaries.