Idol Quotes

“I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertain the audience, you give them little bits of your soul.”
― Chris Colfer

“It takes just one car-free idol; one mass trend; to set Earth's healing in motion.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Just —looking through the chocolate," I said as casually as I could.”
― Lucy Gold, Bias

“I think beyond the superficial accolades, at its core, fans stream and buy albums and merchs, because they want to show that they acknowledge the hard work of the artists and their staff. The stream count, album sales and awards are tangible proof that the idols’ music is good. That they are popular. That they are better.”
― Arushi Raj, Understand K-pop: Deconstructing the Obsession and Toxicity in K-pop Stan Culture

“By the time he painted Estefania's features, her appearance had already been hag-ridden and struck by sheer madness and delusion. But he still did what so many other male painters did before him; he created an idol.”
― Laura Gentile, Within Paravent Walls

“Learn from your mistakes, take responsibility and forgive yourself.”
― Ariana Grande

“We tempt others to look down on us by telling them that we look up to them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“La musica ha il potere di unire le persone» dissi. «Non importa l’età, il colore della pelle o l’educazione che ci è stata imposta, non siamo soli se condividiamo una canzone con qualcuno.”
― Elisa Fumis, Sarang: Il coraggio di amare

“There's nothing exciting about my life," Leyla said. "I mean, you've already seen where I live."
I couldn't hide my self-satisfied smile as I looked out at the sun setting between the buildings, fiery orange. "Thanks to my detective skills."
"Some people would call that stalking."
I thought for a second. "Well, YOU'VE basically assaulted me. Twice."
"Let's call it even.”
― Lucy Gold, Behind the Idol - A K-pop Romance

“Ideals are good to give direction to our lives. However, when ideals become an end in themselves, they become a problem rather than the solution. The ideal worship has caused as much destruction to the world as the idol worship.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“We live in a society where some of the public idols are actually the villains that are willfully damaging the health of the next generation.”
― Steven Magee

“Jack Taylor put it this way: "an idol is something you have to check with before you say yes to God".”
― Kris Vallotton, Heavy Rain: How You Can Transform the World Around You

“No dreamy reality could ever equal my first ever concert in São Paulo, when the crowd lifted a girl over their heads towards me, and as she came closer I could see that she held a white stick, and closer still I could see that she was blind, and as the crowd placed her gently on the stage she handed me a note which read, 'I cannot see you, but I love you.”
― Morrissey, Autobiography

“Standing on the water casting your bread
While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing
Distant ships sailing into the mist
You were born with a snake in both of your fists
While a hurricane was blowing
Freedom just around the corner for you
But with truth so far off, what good will it do?”
― Bob Dylan

“You are not invisible. You just haven’t added enough value to attract attention.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“Be your own idol.”
― Dahi Tamara Koch, Within the event horizon: poetry & prose

“Suonerà come un cliché, lo so, ma mi sembra veramente che sia passato solo un giorno da quando il mondo si fissò con quella canzone. Devo confessare che non mi piaceva. Tuttavia, non arriverei a dire che la odiavo. Non la calcolavo, e riconosco che mi dava fastidio quando la sentivo per la millesima volta mentre ero in giro. Anche se, tecnicamente, è stata la mia prima canzone K-pop, al tempo non avevo un’idea precisa di cosa fosse. Per me, era semplicemente una delle solite mode da social media che era andata troppo in là. E, come ogni altra moda, con il tempo “Gangnam Style” sarebbe sparita e avrebbe lasciato il posto ad altri tormentoni. Ma, senza che potessi immaginarlo, aveva posto le basi per qualcosa di più grande e permanente.”
― Arushi Raj, Alla Ricerca Di Holland: Quando la Musica è Speranza

“Codependent writers attempt to help people shift their focus and effort from other people to self. This merely exchanges one form of idolatry for another because whoever or whatever is the unbiblical focus of one's life is that person's idol.”
― Martin Bobgan, 12 Steps to Destruction: Codependecy/Recovery Heresies

“After all, that's what a real hero does, right? He realizes what makes him an idol to millions is not just spectacular dives and near-miraculous catches during his tenure on the field. Instead, the test of greatness is how a hero treats people after he has changed out of his uniform. That's what makes any life worth imitating.”
― Jeff Kinley

“But he was surly and capricious. Being an idol would not have suited him.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“When there is a ‘collective concentration’ (consider it a form of Energy) gets focused at some objective, the object becomes a ‘source of Energy’.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“When there is a ‘collective concentration’ (consider it a form of Energy) gets focused at some Object, the Onject becomes a ‘source of Energy’.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“He lives forever in his words, in his poems, and in his stories. An inspiration to many writers and poets all around the world. The man who became immortal by his words, the one and only - Ernest Hemingway.”
― Avijeet Das

“When there is a ‘collective concentration’ (consider it a form of Energy) gets focused at some Object, the Object becomes a ‘Source of Energy’.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“There were as many styles of fandom as there were fans. Some people worshipped every move their oshi made, while others thought discernment made the true fan. There were those who had a romantic interest in their oshi but no interest in their oshi’s work; others who had no such feelings but sought a direct connection through engaging on social media; people who enjoyed their oshi’s output but didn’t care about the gossip; those who found fulfillment in supporting the oshi financially; others who valued being part of a fan community.
My angle was simply to keep trying to understand him, as a person and as an artist. I wanted to see the world through his eyes.”
― Rin Usami, Idol, Burning

“They say that stars give you something to dream about, but there is a difference between dreaming and fascination by images. The screen idols are immanent in the unfolding of life as a series of images. They are a system of luxury prefabrication, brilliant syntheses of the stereotypes of life and love. They embody one single passion only: the passion for images, and the immanence of desire in the image. They are not something to dream about; they are the dream. And they have all the characteristics of dream: they produce a marked condensation (crystallization) effect and an effect of continuity (they are immediately contagious), and, above all, they have that power of instantaneous visual materialization (Anschaulichkeit) of desire, which is also a feature of dreams. They do not, therefore, feed the romantic or sexual imagination; they are the immediate visibility, immediate transcription, material collage, precipitation of desire. Fetishes, fetish objects, that have nothing to do with world of the imagination, but everything to do with the material fiction of the image.”
― Jean Baudrillard

“An idol will always break your heart because no created thing can bear the freight of your deepest hopes or the weight of your souls longings.”
― Tim Keller

“The Upanishads were against idol worship. Now, what is the drawback of idol worship? Those who worship idols never get the sense that God is within the human body. By offering flowers at the feet of idols, the man is deceiving himself, deceiving the whole world. Flowers symbolize brain cells. Those who can sprout them to Godhood, in true sense they offer flowers to the feet of God within themselves.”
― Sri Jibamkrishna or Diamond