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The full radiance of light is love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.
— Ruth Padel
Considering the circumstances, Rollan figured being alive was the same thing as being okay.
— Brandon Mull
The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.
— Win Butler
Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
— Victor Hugo
What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.
— Robert W. Bly
. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.
— A.E. Stallings
I don't drink since it ruined the best thing I ever had.
— Kimberly Lauren
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
Being immortal did not make me invincible. Look at what the Bacchants did to that poor Orpheus fella.
— Kevin Hearne
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— Various
Everyone has secrets, Lou," she says. "Everyone should be allowed their secrets. You can never know everything about a person. You'd go mad trying to.
— Sarah Pinborough
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
When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.
— Swami Vivekananda
But Orpheus failed because, like all pakeha, he just couldn't keep his mind on one thing at a time.
— David Brin
If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.
— Bill Parcells
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
So I unto my selfe alone will sing,
The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring. — Edmund Spenser
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
— P.T. Barnum
And in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.
— Jacques Derrida
I am not partial to folk who are grim and austere. I prefer fanciful folk who make me laugh.
— Jack Vance
He sensed between them an understanding too deep to articulate: the unspeakable knowledge that everything is lost.
— Jennifer Egan