Joe Hill: Likeness

Joe Hill was Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Joe Hill: 114 quotes15 likes

“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”

Source: NOS4A2

“It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.”

Source: Horns

“Horror was rooted in sympathy… in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.”

Source: Heart-Shaped Box

“It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.”

Source: Horns

“It's like in the Bible. You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it."
"What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?”

Source: Horns

“She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.”

Source: Horns

“Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.”

Telegram to William "Big Bill" Haywood (1915-11-18), quoted in International Socialist Review, vol. XVI (December 1915)

“I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward.”

Said while being taken to his execution, as quoted in Philip Foner, The Case of Joe Hill (International Publishers Co., 1966), p. 108