Quotes About Resistance

May those who accept their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.

I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

If you believe our cause so hopeless, why join us?""Because you offered something I had forgotten could be offered, a choice. And I choose to die free.

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.

You can't make me do nothing but die!

I can see the cracks in society, in people, in this world and I'd rather die before slipping into one of them.

She sagged against the wall, finding it hard to breathe. It wasn't from fear. Gods, she hadn't been that turned on in years. If that was her punishment, she was going to be lippy a little more often

Hands on hips, she cast him a narrowed-eye gaze. "Move.""You're not leaving.""And you're not stopping me.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and it has no relation to your heart's desires.

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

He had defended himself against death from without, and then it had carried him off from within.

Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind's knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I've placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.