Admirable Quote by Jonathan Stroud

Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with…

— Isabel Allende

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery…

— William James

Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about…

— Veronica Roth

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.

— Yukio Mishima

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to…

— Orhan Pamuk

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

— Criss Jami

“There is heroism to be found in great battles, it is true; warriors with stable knees who fight and know that they will die…

— Kevin Hearne

Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of…

— Ann Aguirre

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.

— Criss Jami

I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything.

— Jeffrey Wright

“You cannot be a hero unless you are prepared to give up everything; there is no ascent to the heights without a prior descent…

— Karen Armstrong

People aren't universally heroic.

— Alexei Sayle