Nic Pizzolatto Quotes

A lot of action heroes, we're told they are heroic primarily because they commit violence upon the bad guy. It can be cathartic; it can be thrilling. But at some point, I think you want more from your heroes than just the ability and willingness to pummel someone.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.

I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, 'I am a superhero,' but the truth is that we're all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.

For all men would be cowards if they durst.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

We see your willingness to die beautifully. We don’t see the need to die beautifully.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.