Demigods Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.”

— Helen Gardner

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

— Maxwell Anderson

There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul…

— Deena Metzger

That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace…

— Rick Riordan

The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost,…

— Joseph Campbell

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive…

— Joseph Campbell

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

— John Milton

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of…

— Alexander Pope

The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.

— Anonymous

“Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now…

— Alexander Pope

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile…

— Norbert Wiener