Quotes About Eurydice

#1. 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

#2. I want to be your Eurydice, if you'll let me.

J.A. Redmerski

#3. Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

Cyril Connolly

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. If fervent memory could raise the dead, she would be our Eurydice.

Audrey Niffenegger

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. And in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.

Jacques Derrida

#12. 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

#13. Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.

Robert Harris

#14. Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Friedrich Schiller

#15. Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Sometimes you play a game even when you know you're going to lose or sometimes you leave a game even when you know you can win.

Unknown

#17. The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

#18. I chose to live in the Ether, to be starlight and legend....

Laurie Perez

#19. When we are stone will the world recall us?

Bruce Meyer

#20. A leader takes things personally. A manager sees things as "just business".

Jim Korkis

#21. I utter what you would not dare think.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#22. If I could bronze my love, it'd be worthy of a silver medal.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#23. The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

John Stott

#24. 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

#25. What madness destroyed me and you, Orpheus?

Virgil