Quotes About Bacchae

#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. And we clung to each other in a shelter smelling of orange peel and piss on the promenade, and shrieked with glee, like the Bacchae who dismembered Orpheus.

Lorna Sage

#3. My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.

Hugh Jackman

#4. We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. And now try to follow me, because I'm gonna be moving in a kind of circular motion, so if you pay attention, there will be a point!

George Huang

#6. Starting with that son of mine - that weakling Chiron.

Rick Riordan

#7. Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Wole Soyinka

#8. In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.

Richard Bode

#9. So little cost to comprehend that what has long been lawful, over centuries, comes forever out of Nature.

Euripides

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

Euripides

#11. I've been to a lot of places while touring, but I'd have to say Switzerland was my favorite.

Drake Bell

#12. The pain will be born from that look cast inside yourself, And this pain will make you go beyond the veil. (Mathnawi II, 2517)

Camille Helminski

#13. You don't get to pick who you fall in love with.

Tammy Falkner