Quotes About Defiance

I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.

I am a Magyr. I could crush your skull with my hands and drink this rat town under the table afterwards. And if I wanted to kill myself a passel of sailors, I'd bloody well do it with cannon, saber, and a fist in the teeth, not by batting my damn eyelashes. You'd be wise to remember it, Maggie, my love, and if we see a mermaid on our jaunt across the high seas, the best thing for all of us would be to let Sheapshank here put an arrow through her giggling head.

We like the wrong sort of girls", they wrote. "They are usually the ones worth writing about.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

You can fuck all the way off.

Some people might think this erratic, possibly a cause for concern. She preferred to think of it as not giving a single, solitary fuck.

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo

They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.

There was something in her that could not, or would not, see the distinctions that the world wished to make between weak and strong, between women and men, laborer and lord.

Laten we ons nergens wat van aantrekken en op de gewone tijd gaan eten.

Godverdomme,' zei hij, 'gooi iemand anders wat op zijn poten.

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

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.

So many people treat you like you're a kid that you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

The world is gonna try and clean you up; what you gonna do about it? They're gonna try to make you pretty, what the fuck you gonna do about it? You're gonna say, 'I WANNA STAY UGLY.'

You're going to come across a lot of shitty bands and a lot of shitty people and if any of those people call you names because of what you look like or because they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherfucker, stick up your middle finger, and scream Fuck you!

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

Let's begin all over again. Let's begin by affirming that poetry has died. And that I'm not a poet. And I'll never, ever be one. I'm not interested in poetry. I don't like life. I detest men. I hate children. I hate the sea.

The dwarf and the woman, lucky miscreants, outlanders, errors that should not exist but lived on anyway. (314)

Saying no, I thought, that has always been my forte, and no wonder, given that the stupidity of the world is rivalled only by its ugliness.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

antagonist having one hand strapped behind his back and the other

Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!