Killjoy Quotes

#1. God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

John Piper

#2. When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#3. Hot off the presses, today's headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways," Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. "Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider - he is a bit of a killjoy.

Libba Bray

#4. Let's take the figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. One feminist project could be to give the killjoy back her voice. Whilst hearing feminists as killjoys might be a form of dismissal, there is an agency that this dismissal rather ironically reveals. We can respond to the accusation with a yes.

Sara Ahmed

#5. The feminist killjoy takes pleasure in the work of interrupting the patriarchal norms that pass as joy.
Burn it down! She gleefully lights the match.

Erin Wunker

#6. The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#7. The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at the start, but the physical and emotional debt incurred will take a long time to pay off.

N. T. Wright

#8. She wriggled the demon's fingers a bit more. "It'd make a good back-scratcher." Rowan only frowned. "Killjoy," she said, and chucked the arm onto the torso of the Wyrdhound.

Sarah J. Maas

#9. Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

Wendell Berry

#10. I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development

Maria Montessori

#12. What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Robert Ballard

#13. I can't stand light. I hate weather.

Peter O'Toole

#14. Live how you live, feel how you feel and fuck all the phonies in your way.

Christopher Krovatin

#15. The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

Billy Sunday

#16. Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity.

Albert Einstein

#17. If a fish votes for the fisherman, he votes for its own ruin!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in ... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was ... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.

Oscar Wilde

#19. When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.

Rachel Caine

#20. What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

Maxim Gorky

#21. It's just so perfuck.

Toba Beta

#22. Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.

Douglas Wood

#23. God gave me eyes so that I might see you, and God gave you eyes, so that I might see myself.

Brad Brown

#24. People love to judge, get used to it and stop taking it personally.

Kathryn Budig