Quotes About The Hero Quest

#1. There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

Joseph Campbell

#2. Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

Dorothy Norman

#3. He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over.

Pete Wentz

#4. He said the only real monsters in this world are human beings.

Cat Winters

#5. The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women's inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.

Molly Haskell

#6. it was not the objective that made one a hero - it was the journey, the quest itself.

Morgan Rice

#7. My kids don't slow down, but they like to hang just with us, with mum and dad. They play with us and we play, too.

Deborra-Lee Furness

#8. If the quest was supposed to be easy, they would not have given it to someone who is supposed to be a hero. --A Hero Born, pg 344

Michael A. Stackpole

#9. in the month-by-month process of editorial criticism and censorship, Hardy never lost his fierce contempt for all forms of 'tampering with natural truth

Thomas Hardy

#10. You began your journey here as a pup. Now you must find your way back. A new quest, a new start.

Rick Riordan

#11. Never kick a man when he's up.

Tip O'Neill

#12. People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

David Chase

#13. We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

Richard Schiff

#14. Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

Voltaire

#15. [ ... ] They taught us to never ever underestimate the power of chocolate on a female."
"Is that so?"
"If someone had waved a Hershey bar in front of Bonnie at the right time of the month, she'd have given up Clyde in a heartbeat.

Serena B. Miller

#16. We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

Rick Riordan

#17. It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Rene Descartes

#18. I appreciate very much Vilayat Khan, the sitar player, and Bismillah Khan, the shehnai player; and among the tabla players, of course, Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaja, and all these people.

Ravi Shankar

#19. You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

Lev Grossman

#20. And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.

Joseph Campbell

#21. Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.

Robert A. Heinlein