Quotes about Defiance
Only the man who says no is free
— Herman Melville
There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the center which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.
— Virginia Woolf
And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense.
— Virginia Woolf
Though the wind is rough and blowing in their faces, those girls there, striding hand in hand, shouting out a song, seem to feel neither cold nor shame. They are hatless. They triumph.
— Virginia Woolf
I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
— Virginia Woolf
He went on saying No to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex.
— Virginia Woolf
Yes, but I still resent the usual order. I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things. I will walk; I will not change the rhythm of my mind by stopping, by looking; I will walk.
— Virginia Woolf
Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.
— Charles Dickens
Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.
— Charles Dickens
My flesh and blood...when it rises against me, is not my flesh and blood. I discard it.
— Charles Dickens