Heroics Quotes

“Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens

“By the time I wrote this book I needed to look at heroics from outside and underneath, from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can’t do magic. The ones who don’t have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people—my people. I didn’t want to change Earthsea, but I needed to see what Earthsea looked like to us.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu

“Are you done briefing the company yet?"

"We, um... Haven't gotten through the introductions yet."

"Allow me: Time-traveling Kevyn Andreyasn, this is the mercenary company "Tagon's Toughs."

"Company, this is the time-traveling Kevyn Andreyasn, who will have become your captain thirty-two hours from now, as of seven weeks ago.
Now, quick. Let's go save the galaxy while they're confused.”
― Howard Tayler, Resident Mad Scientist

“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 kill each other--or kill ourselves.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“Allyship born of heroism- not altruism- will ultimately be performative and harmful.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“Perhaps, at its core, heroism was a less pretty tale. Words like honor and valor, gilded over necessity and the harsh truth - that there was no choice.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Heart of the Sun Warrior

“I play the scenario of the hero out in my head, and in doing so I revel at the thought of boldly abating the darkness and saving the day. Yet, until I face the searing scourge of battle and am thickly bloodied by it, I will not understand that to imagine oneself as a hero without being laden with the scars of battle is fiction only. And if I am sufficiently brave, maybe someday I will turn that fiction to fact.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There had been too many tales of heroes, and too little on how to act like one when the time came.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky

“imagines heroics make the helplessness worse, don't you think?”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“Imagined heroics make the helplessness worse, don't you think?”
― Ryan Graudin, Invictus

“When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore.
You've changed and become someone else - a new person, one who did bear it after all.”
― Austin Grossman, Soon I Will be Invincible