Epic quotes
405 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."
"All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage."
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
"Absence - that common cure of love."
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"The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them."
"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."
"When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror."
"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used."
"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes."
"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."
"Some may never live, but the crazy never die."
"I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations to determine the course of my life. I had decided at a much younger age that several of my beliefs should determine the course of my life...I...believe that Waengongi, the Creator, has an epic script into which my minute presence has been written."
"Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones."
"The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world."
"I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous."
"My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!"
"My life is a vast inconsequential epic."
"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."
"If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India ."
"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up."
"More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself."
"I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine."
"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
"It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die."
