Orpheus Quotes: top 26 famous quotes about Orpheus

Orpheus Quotes & Sayings

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Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss. — Ruth Padel

If wishes solved problems, the world would be a very different place. — Jaye Wells

The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil. — Win Butler

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. — Oscar Wilde

. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight. — A.E. Stallings

Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power. — Pythagoras

What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine. - from Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29 Rainer Maria Rilke — Kate Bernheimer

Being immortal did not make me invincible. Look at what the Bacchants did to that poor Orpheus fella. — Kevin Hearne

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd. — Logan Marshall-Green

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last. — Cyril Connolly

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself ... — George Eliot

What am I singing?
A song of seeds
The food of love.
Eat the music. — Kate Bush

Don't become a grumpy old dater! Life ids for living, laughing and loving!Stop searching, start finding! — Siggy Buckley

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The greatest pleasures are born of conquered repugnancies. — Marquis De Sade

But Orpheus failed because, like all pakeha, he just couldn't keep his mind on one thing at a time. — David Brin

He sensed between them an understanding too deep to articulate: the unspeakable knowledge that everything is lost. — Jennifer Egan

Make it your habit to behold the Light without the glass, so that when the glass is shattered you may not be left blind. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Because all the brilliant ones- they can sing it and they can paint it, but they can't do it. You can't expect them to love you. — Dakota Lane

So Orpheus did for his owne bride,
So I unto my selfe alone will sing,
The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring. — Edmund Spenser

I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor. — Madonna Ciccone

Don't look back, you asshole! he thought. Good advice, from Orpheus to Lot. — Karen Russell

What madness destroyed me and you, Orpheus? — Virgil

Ignorance of ourselves must be folly. — A.L.O.E.

And in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes. — Jacques Derrida

I'm really happy to have set the world record for the fastest disabled woman, but I think I can go much faster. — Heather Mills