Irwin Edman Quotes

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

Perseus, you are not the hero.

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?

Society is founded on hero-worship.

The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.

I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around." I feel so wanted. Thanks.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?

The gods need heroes. They always have.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

I turned to Annabeth and shook my head in exasperation. “Always Hercules. What is it with Hercules?” Annabeth shrugged. “He had a great publicist.

One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal." Discovering that the modern world can still contain the wonder and strangeness of a fairy tale is part of what my novels are about.

Lir said, "It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." But Schmendrick answered, "This is not the end, either for you or for her.

Husband, we talked about this," Persephone chided. "You can't go around incinerating every hero. Besides, he's brave. I like that." Hades rolled his eyes. "You liked that Orpheus fellow too. Look how well that turned out.

I have a problem with being a hero, but that's another problem.

Am I a hero? I really can't say, but yes.

Well I'm the Prince and I'm sort of slaying a dragon - which is something I've never done before, obviously.

As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.