1,474 Quotes About Hero

Truth is a pathless land.

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

The band may be small in terms of numbers with only two members, but Halifax rockers The Town Heroes are mighty in sound.

Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.

Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.