Hero Quotes - Page 36

• The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.

  Joseph Campbell

  Light, Soul, Deeds

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.334, New World Library

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• The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within.

  Joseph Campbell

  Kings, Mirrors, Self

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.315, New World Library

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• The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Men, Self

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.89, New World Library

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• The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Long, Overcoming, Depth

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.22, New World Library

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• The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

  Carl Jung

  Creative, Legendary, Demon

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• Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Art, Labels, Packaging

  "Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It" by Lewis Lapham, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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• Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Evil, Doubt

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• Everybody who really does what he is capable of, is a hero

  Mats Hummels

  Doe, Capable

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• Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

  Sherman Alexie

  People, Decent, Underrated

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• A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Men, Heroism

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• ... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

  May Sarton

  Dream, Thinking, Achievement

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• In india, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.

  Amit Bhatia

  Giving Up, Role Models, India

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• The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Men, Progress, Stuff

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• Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

  Jay Sekulow

  Should Have, Enemy, Weakness

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• The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.

  A. C. Bradley

  Suffering, Stories, Facts

  A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.9, A. C. Bradley

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• Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.

  A. C. Bradley

  Taken, Suffering, Tragedy

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• When I was eighteen, River Phoenix was far and away my hero. Think of all those early great performances - My Own Private Idaho. Stand by Me. I always wanted to meet him. One night, I was at this Halloween party, and he passed me. He was beyond pale - he looked white. Before I got a chance to say hello, he was gone, driving off to the Viper Room, where he fell over and died. That's a lesson.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Halloween, Party, Night

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• War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  War, Dirty, Mean

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Stars, Loss, Brave

  "In Memoriam — A Rededication to Space" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2011.

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• Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Book, Next Week

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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• A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

  Aristotle

  True Identity, Tragedy, Faces

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• Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Real, Past, Imagination

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• When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

  Morgan Neville

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  "Interview: Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville on Sparking Debate with 'Best of Enemies'". Interview with Stephen Saito, moveablefest.com. July 31, 2015.

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• The first movie my dad ever showed me was Predator - I was five. And I think the second one was Jaws. I've has this understanding of fiction for a very, very long time but I've also had this thing where I've idolized the male action heroes because that's what I watched with my dad.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Dad, Thinking, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef.

  Anne Heche

  Grandmother, World, Way

  Source: collider.com

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