Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice…

“Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.”

— Céline Sciamma

“We are each what never leaves us, what we never see the back of is the self. But what loves us is at the…

— Christina Davis

Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is…

— Denis de Rougemont

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,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“If fervent memory could raise the dead, she would be our Eurydice.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

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

“Eurydice sits alone on a red bed. She has flaming red hair, so flaming that you can't see anything else of her, much less…

— Kathy Acker

“INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD Janey dreams of cocks. Janey sees cocks instead of objects. Janey has to fuck.…

— Kathy Acker

“I want to be your Eurydice, if you'll let me.”

— J.A. Redmerski

“Every angel is terrifying. Through the darkness, they move silently... I will go down into death with you. I must go where I must…

— Kathy Acker

“. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.”

— A. E. Stallings

“Orpheus chose to be the leader of mankind. Ah, not even Orpheus had attained such a goal, not even his immortal greatness had justified…

— Hermann Broch

“... and in the homosexual phase which would follow Eurydice's death ... Orpheus sings no more, he writes.”

— Jacques Derrida

How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than…

— Kenny Smith

“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.”

— Ruth Padel