Sisyphean Quotes

#1. The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.

Caryl Chessman

#2. I felt stuck in a Sisyphean loop, writing the same press release over and over. Even more, I was tired of promoting other people's creations instead of creating something myself. I imagined myself on my deathbed, and I could hear my biggest regret: I never even tried to be a writer.

Helene Wecker

#3. Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

Jodi Picoult

#4. If you don't hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you'll be fine in the South.

Tommy Lee Jones

#5. I need new ones of these. Victor pushed his glasses up the Sisyphean slope of his nose.

Sloane Crosley

#6. I am vegetarian, so I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products. Shoes are hard to find. These are fake Uggs. And I've got a pair of vintage boots, which are PVC.

Leona Lewis

#7. No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

Sappho

#8. Like a squash ball, locked inside an all-glass court, played in a never ending Sisyphean rally between two invisible and equally able opponents, that's what the Digital State first felt like. A descriptor in search of a winning shot, to break the deadlock, to set it free.

Simon Pont

#9. It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.

Sophocles

#10. Stick to the sheep," the armsmaster advised impudently. "They don't snore.

Anonymous

#11. It can be seductive and cunning. Darkness wears many faces, and some of those faces can seem, at first, like allies.

P.C. Cast

#12. If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.

Knute Rockne

#13. At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

Nick Cave

#14. For this indiscretion Seneca relegates the emperor (Claudius) to a Sisyphean gamester's hell: condemned eternally to pick up the bones and thow them into a dice cup that has no bottom.

Ricky Jay

#15. If you want to be a truly great leader, you'll develop other great leaders below you.

Bo Schembechler

#16. Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.

Charles Baudelaire

#17. As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

David Mitchell

#18. Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

Matt Ridley