Hero Quote by Brad Herzog

“It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have…

— Oscar Wilde

“All right, she thought I was a funny little geezer, but my charred Phaethon had impressed her, I was very obviously available, and she…

— Cees Nooteboom

A heroic nature is very Greek.

— Patrick Wilson

“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“That’s the way Greek drama worked.”

— Josephine Angelini

“The goddess smiled. "You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn. When Dionysus…

— Rick Riordan

“Heroism isn’t some mysterious inner virtue, the Greeks believed; it’s a collection of skills that every man and woman can master so that in…

— Christopher McDougall

“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

— Donna Tartt

“The heroes of ancient Greece wept more often than our silly, sentimental modern women. They knew it did no good to hold it back.…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Heroes care. True heroism, as the ancients understood, isn’t about strength, or boldness, or even courage. It’s about compassion.”

— Christopher McDougall

“I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.”

— Anne Lamott

“I talk of love, a scholar's parrot may talk greek, but, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.”

— phil keaggy