Top 27 Eurydice's Quotes
#1. And in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.
Jacques Derrida
#2. How can something as necessary as breathing be immoral?
Susan Scott
#3. Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
Cyril Connolly
#4. I'm bored way too easily. I'm staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?
Bo Burnham
#5. Perhaps Eurydice wants to remain marginal, a shade insubstantial ... the mute waste in a limbo without light and without depth are a style of anima fascinations in which the absence of significance is the significance.
James Hillman
#6. Anxiously he explored every one of these vaguely seen shapes, as though among the phantoms of the dead, in the realms of darkness, he had been searching for a lost Eurydice.
Marcel Proust
#7. I chose to live in the Ether, to be starlight and legend....
Laurie Perez
#8. When we are stone will the world recall us?
Bruce Meyer
#9. Does every woman at some point in her life wander through the sleeping house, looking in at her husband and children, and wonder what she's doing here, in this particular life?
Nancy Thayer
#11. Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.
Denis De Rougemont
#12. We are each what never leaves us, what we never see
the back of
is the self. But what loves us
is at the back, as Eurydice was
escorting him out
without his knowing.
Christina Davis
#13. she had never been alone to care for her own self one day of her life, nor could it ever have occurred to her that she might become responsible for the well- being of another.
John Williams
#14. If fervent memory could raise the dead, she would be our Eurydice.
Audrey Niffenegger
#15. I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.
Julian Barnes
#16. When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.
Czeslaw Milosz
#17. It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together.
Kathy Acker
#18. Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
Ovid
#19. Arik passed another smug look to Brian, then to
Megeara. He was getting tired of her mistrust - not that he
didn't deserve it. It was merely causing him aggravation - an
interesting emotion that. He didn't like it. It was too
aggravating.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. The land's like a woman. Tame her gently, treat her good, and you'll never be without her. Strip her bare, and she'll be colder than a whore's heart.
Bonnie K. Winn
#21. Bullying is beneath alphas. Bullies are just pussies that are big enough to get away with exorcising their emotional problems.
A.D. Aliwat
#22. With a good melody ... music gets me through everything.
Drake Bell
#23. What madness destroyed me and you, Orpheus?
Virgil
#24. Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#25. At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#27. People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
Carrie Fisher
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