Epic Quotes

389 quotes by 290 authors

There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes,… — Augusto Roa Bastos
Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being. — Brian Swimme
I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations… — Steve Saint
But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most… — Georgette Heyer
I think itâ€™s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that weâ€™re unique geniuses, and the… — Scott Lynch
I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on. — Melissa Auf der Maur
All bad writers are in love with the epic. — Ernest Hemingway
I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating… — Henry R. Luce
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace:… — David Bentley Hart
Itâ€™s a known fact that in certain contexts peopleâ€™s great strengths become their epic failings. — A.S.A. Harrison
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a… — Anatole Broyard
I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only… — Hiroshi Yamauchi
I am associated with techno epics. — Trevor Horn
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!" — John Greenleaf Whittier
Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese… — Belle de Jour
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos… — James Hillman
Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of… — Kenneth R. Miller
All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic. — Richard Hammond
If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted. — John DeChancie
Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now. — Jane McGonigal

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