Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the…

This change, he won't contain, Slip away, to clear your mind. When asked, who made it show, The truth, he gives in to most.

— Chevelle

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“If one knows the truth that all that one gives to others is giving only to oneself, who indeed will not be a virtuous…

— Anonymous

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck--…

— Walker Percy

“. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight.”

— A. E. Stallings

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

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

— Jacques Derrida

“Fire he sang, that trees fear, and I, a tree, rejoiced in its flames. New buds broke forth from me though it was full…

— Denise Levertov

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture…

— Victor Hugo

Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought…

— Cornelia Funke

Husband, we talked about this," Persephone chided. "You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that." Hades rolled his eyes.…

— Rick Riordan

“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 I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made…

— Jack Spicer

“Mandelstam was, one is tempted to say, a modern Orpheus: sent to hell, he never returned, while his widow dodged across one-sixth of the…

— Joseph Brodsky

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

— Ruth Padel