Top 18 Sisyphean Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I need new ones of these. Victor pushed his glasses up the Sisyphean slope of his nose.
Sloane Crosley
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.
Charles Baudelaire
#7. As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
David Mitchell
#8. Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race
Matt Ridley
#9. The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.
Caryl Chessman
#10. If you want to be a truly great leader, you'll develop other great leaders below you.
Bo Schembechler
#11. 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
#12. If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.
Knute Rockne
#13. It can be seductive and cunning. Darkness wears many faces, and some of those faces can seem, at first, like allies.
P.C. Cast
#14. Stick to the sheep," the armsmaster advised impudently. "They don't snore.
Anonymous
#15. It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.
Sophocles
#16. No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
Sappho
#17. 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
#18. If you don't hurt anybody or try to steal anything, you'll be fine in the South.
Tommy Lee Jones
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