Heroic Narratives Quotes

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

Marvel is really about the stories of Peter Parker and Bruce Banner or Jessica Jones. These are - I'm hesitant to say the word, but - real people with real problems whose power comes, to use the great expression, with great responsibility.

As a kid, you just like anything fanciful that you're into, but as an adult, I really love that kind of place where the super hero mythos meets life, where it has that human story; that's what I think I was really drawn to when I started getting into the X-Men.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. 'Life is not a song, sweetling,' he'd told her, 'You may learn that one day to your sorrow.' In life, the monsters win, she told herself.

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

I wholeheartedly believe that super heroes can play in virtually any storytelling genre.

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they look to be heroes in some other way. So young men in America of, let's say, Muslim background, only a tiny, tiny minority - so small as to be almost zero - are likely to ever commit terrorist acts.

The language of the heroic is something that has evolved over time.

I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational - not always who we are, but always who we want to be. We see ourselves as good and generous. We believe we are a virtuous nation.

Over the course of my creative life, I've trafficked in broken, heroic mothers.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

'Goldenheart' is like a modern-day Joan of Arc. Think of it like medieval times-cum-2045 or Lancelot and Guinevere in 3025. It's a new version of these battles - age-old stories for the now.