Epic Quotes

“My life wasn’t just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently.”

“Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional epic, and at the very moment of its hero's greatest military triumph, Homer diverts his focus from Achilles to the epic's two most important casualties, Patroklos and Hektor: it is to the consequences of their deaths, especially to the victor, that all action of the Iliad has been inexorably leading.”

“If we think of the novel and the epic...The difference lies in the fact that the important thing about the epic is a hero--a man who is a pattern for all men. While, as Mencken pointed out, the essence of most novels lies in the breaking down of a man, in the degeneration of character.”

“As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.”

“And God's epic grace shows us how to rise above our pain and circumstances with enduring hope and faith in him.”

“The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.”

“Give Compassion: Every day the average person fights epic battles never told just to survive.”

“My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!”

“We are what ballads are written of, what bards sing of. We are epic, you and I.”