Orpheus Quotes
Collection of top 26 famous quotes about Orpheus
Orpheus Quotes & Sayings
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The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.
— Win Butler
. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.
— A.E. Stallings
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
Don't become a grumpy old dater! Life ids for living, laughing and loving!Stop searching, start finding!
— Siggy Buckley
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
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
Ignorance of ourselves must be folly.
— A.L.O.E.
