Dionysian Quotes

#1. Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation - the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

Peter De Vries

#2. The Dionysian is no picnic.

Camille Paglia

#3. You know the classification of cultures into 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.

Robert Ludlum

#5. Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.

Steven Pressfield

#7. For a long time I would go to bed early.
[Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]

Marcel Proust

#8. The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Do you think it's a coincidence that college is when many Americans do their most serious fucking and falling-down drinking and generally ecstatic DIonysian-type reveling? It's not.

David Foster Wallace

#10. What factors make you decide to take a particular role?" The actor always answers: "Because I'm afraid of it.

Steven Pressfield

#11. The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

Kim Young-sam

#12. She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.

Rick Riordan

#13. Affirmation of life even in its strangest and sternest problems; the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustibility through the sacrifice of its highest types - that is what I call dionysian

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. But they say that sexuality can be dangerously Dionysian. Nowhere do we need order more than at any orgy.

William H Gass

#15. Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.

Renzo Novatore

#16. I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

Henning Mankell

#17. Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

Horace

#18. He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age.

John Daly

#19. For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Thomas Campbell

#20. People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin
a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

Robert A. Heinlein

#21. Careful what you wish for, lad, Rob thought. Blood's not so easy to put back in, once you let it flow. Your own no more than anybody else's.

Victor Milan

#22. What is a man's soul made of that a woman's is not?

Kerri Maniscalco

#23. He may not look as tall or strong as some, but he is worth more than all of them. - Lysa

George R R Martin

#24. Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

Isadora Duncan

#25. To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

Anais Nin

#26. Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

John Ralston Saul

#27. A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#28. Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

Herbert M. Shelton