Minotaur Quotes

• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Maps, Lines

  Neil Cox, Pablo Picasso (2010). “The Picasso Book”, Tate

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• The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Labyrinth, Existence, Justify

  "The Aleph" by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley, 1949.

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• Every labyrinth has its minotaur

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Labyrinth

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• I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Shadow, Monsters, Towns

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.527, Macmillan

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• You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Reality, Four, Should

  Catherynne M. Valente (2013). “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two”, p.26, Macmillan

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• I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Animal, Mermaid, Half

  Interview with Anohni, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 2, 2016.

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• It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Way, Kind

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.137, Penguin UK

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• An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself

  Alejandra Pizarnik

  Dwelling, Space, Mourning

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• I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It's not done! You don't go out of your house without any clothes on, and a minotaur doesn't go into the world without a labyrinth to keep him warm.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Clothes, House, Labyrinth

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.199, Macmillan

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• The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me.

  Rick Riordan

  Bed, Lasts, Last Time

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.134, Penguin UK

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• Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill. This time what I saw up there was even worse: two bulls. And not just regular bulls - bronze ones the size of elephants. And even that wasn't bad enough. Naturally they had to breathe fire, too.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, Hate, Fire

  Rick Riordan (2008). “Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters”, p.34, Penguin UK

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• When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is sufficient reason not to believe in any of them.

  Peter Stone

  Believe, Talking, Religion

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• I used mythology to tell the story [in Living with Love], with the story of the minotaur and the matador and fighting and fighting for love and the color red and flowers and horns and death and naked men. You know, the important things in life.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Flower, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.newnownext.com

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• In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?" "You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?

  Julia Quinn

  Husband, Mean, Three

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• The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its twin blades was shaped like an omega: Ω—the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Maybe that was because the axe would be the last thing his victims ever saw

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Greek, Letters

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• George unhinged his jaw and coughed up a little plastic bottle filled with chewable vitamins. "You're kidding," I said. "Are those Minotaur-shaped?" Hermes picked up the bottle and rattled it. "The lemon ones, yes. The grape ones are Furies, I think. Or are they hydras? At any rate, these are potent."

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Bottles, Hydra

  "Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, books.google.ru. May 1, 2008.

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• It’s been me all along,” said September slowly. “Me who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That to wake up the Prince. Me who shot the poor Minotaur. You oughtn’t just hand the whole business over the moment a Prince comes on the scene. I’ve got to see it through, don’t you see? The Hollow Queen is hollow because she’s missing the part of her that’s me. We’ve got to come together again. And he can’t do a thing about that.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Queens, Hands, Together Again

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• These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lakes, Hands, Jewels

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• I remember that my sisters gave me this beautiful, like, empty book for Christmas. And I would draw all these beautiful women. Most of the time it was mermaids and a Minotaur: half human, half animal. I used to be obsessed with Minotaurs when I was a child.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Beautiful, Children, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.

  Werner Herzog

  Drawing, Use, Caves

  "'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• I don't think we have enough imaginary creatures in cinema. It seems like we're stuck with zombies, vampires, and werewolves. We should have everything. We should have minotaurs. We should have elves. We should have mermen in popular culture. But instead we've stuck with vampires.

  Neil Jordan

  Thinking, Should Have, Zombie

  "Q&A: Neil Jordan, Master of the Vampire Movie". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. June 27, 2013.

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• Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.

  William Poundstone

  Simple, Imagination, Kangaroos

  "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge". Book by William Poundstone, 1988.

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