Bacchae Dionysus Quotes

#1. In Euripedes's The Bacchae...Dionysus dispenses food, drink and comfort, and inspires communal energy, song and dance; he is rapture and rage, illumination and blindness.

Anya Taylor

#2. The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

Phil Collins

#3. Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.

Mary Oliver

#4. I slipped it into your papers to see if you would notice. The Zen master Ikkyu was once asked to write a distillation of the highest wisdom. He wrote only one word: Attention.

Jenny Offill

#5. With that, I splashed some water on my face, fixed on a smile, and stepped out. I would find Jerome. I would make him explain to me what I was missing. We would laugh, then we would kiss with tongue, and all would be well.

Maureen Johnson

#6. Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!

Euripides

#7. Be who you are, not who you are forced to be...

Stef Schuurman

#8. I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

Gayle Forman

#9. Both my parents work in film. They're crew. I love movies, and I just wanted to be involved. I got really lucky. I auditioned for a while and then started making films.

Kristen Stewart