81 Quotes About Epic

You’ve probably heard the phrase “you make your life what you choose it to be.” It’s true. The quality of our lives is partly due to our own choices and actions — and we often don’t know the full extent of the impact we have on others until we look back on our lives and see how we’ve influenced others. Here are some epic quotes about life that will inspire you to live a life worthy of the epic narrative you’re weaving.

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I was just kidding, shuck-face, " Minho said. "Let's all go over there. She could have an army of psycho girl ninjas hiding in that shack of hers."" Psycho girl ninjas?" Newt repeated, his voice showing he was surprised, if not annoyed, by Minho's additude. James Dashner
Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world...
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Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you. BillieJo Williams
It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd...
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It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch. Diana Gabaldon
She might not have read many books. But when she...
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She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages. Kamand Kojouri
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I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the power not to shuffle away from the Faith, the power to break loose from these marching-shackles of ongoing cultural and political pretense. Criss Jami
How are we going to get out of here?
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How are we going to get out of here?"" Oh, escape is easy once you have the right Derek Landy
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For Achilles, the death of Patroclus pushed him into a fury, but it was not only grief that drove him. It was also a sense of shame and guilt because he had not been there to protect his friend. Sometimes men in combat feel this sort of survivor’s guilt even though, realistically, they could have done nothing to prevent their comrade’s death. Nel Noddings
My life wasn’t just about one city, or one Epic,...
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My life wasn’t just about one city, or one Epic, anymore. It was about a war. It was about finding a way to stop the Epics.Permanently. Brandon Sanderson
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I wouldn't do that, " Silk advised. "Thinking about it isn't going to help, and it's only going to make you nervous."" Nervouser, " Garion corrected. "I'm already nervous."" Is there such a word as "'nervouser'?" Silk asked Belgarath curiously. "There is now, " Belgarath replied. "Garion just invented it."" I wish I could invent a word, " Silk said admiringly to Garion. David Eddings
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We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear. Kamand Kojouri
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Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other. Kamand Kojouri
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In every journey comes a moment... one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are... and who you want to be. J.C. Marino
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But have a care! It is a bitter blade, and steel serves only those that can wield it. It will cut your hand as willingly as aught else. J.r.r. Tolkien
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Come with me Tlothy. Lady misfortune always brings together the unlucky.” Said Aissawa laughing. Abdelouahab Hammoudi
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You’re the shield, and I’m the sword. Amanda Bouchet
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It’s just you always…” “ Run, ” I finish for him… I gaze up at him. Soft light plays over his striking features — the hard planes of his cheekbones, his strong jaw, the slight hook in his nose. “I’ll still run, Griffin. The difference now is that I’ll run to you.” He looks at me for a long time, his gray eyes inscrutable. “You’d better.” I arch an eyebrow. “Or you’ll spank me? . Amanda Bouchet
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It’s amazing what desperation can do to a person. It can seep into the heart. Turn us into the very monsters we fight." -Vexis C.M. Hayden
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There was something severed and rough about her, something tainted and, yet, at the same time those jagged pieces were the makings of something fearsome. She'd wanted to become someone the Senate would fear, why not shatter the sky? Elise Kova
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Azerowut, I must tend to an urgently urgent business and a business that is urgent most urgently. Watch over my tent with extreme care and care that is caring in the extreme, and do not, under any circumstantial circumstances, allow anyone and his brother to be within an uncomfortably uncomfortable distance of her door. --Master Kwadile Michael Joseph Murano
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For every blissful moment you must an anguish meet. BillieJo Williams
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A wounded animal yet bears teeth BillieJo Williams
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There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world. BillieJo Williams
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You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face. Jason Evert
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In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that. Lucy Foley
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In fairy tales the evil characters disappear or die, in reality, evil spreads while you wait for your hero on a horse, only to realise the sword to save yourself was always in your hand... Seja Majeed
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Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman. Unknown
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The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic. Steve Maraboli
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Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic. A.D. Posey
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Gareth Miller grabbed the beer first, then the hotdog, because if there’s one thing you don’t want to be caught dead without at these sorts of events it’s beer. The hotdog was strictly for show, a prop, a way of blending in. Burst of static in his right ear: “G-man, you read me? What’s yo’ twenty, dawg?” Gareth departed the concession stand, stopped, looked down at his hands, and tossed the hotdog into the first trash receptacle he saw. Raising his wrist to his mouth, he spoke into the cuff of his long-sleeved tee. “Concession stand, Section B. Over.”Allowing his hand to linger by his chin, he gingerly scratched his cheek as if he had meant to do it all along. The same voice: “Yo, I’m in position. Ready when you is.” Gareth cringed while crossing the wide concourse, checking both directions. The giant hallway was the main drag of a ghost town, its only residents a solitary custodian sweeping debris into a portable waste bin and the concession crew to his rear. Jay Nichols
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Life was a destiny waiting to be seized. Karen Azinger
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For Honor and the Octagon! Karen Azinger
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I have one dream: I want to get my jet pilot license, and take my jet to 40 000 feet, look down, and realise how small we are. Not for the kick of the G's but just to get the feeling of just for once flying above humanity. Wouter Van Gastel
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Whether or not the fame of Gilgamesh of Uruk had reached the Aegean — and the idea is attractive — there can be no doubt that it was as great as that of any other hero. In time his name became so much a household word that jokes and forgeries were fathered onto it, as in a popular fraud that survives on eighth-century B.C. tablets which perhaps themselves copy an older text. This is a letter supposed to be written by Gilgamesh to some other king, with commands that he should send improbable quantities of livestock and metals, along with gold and precious stones for an amulet for Enkidu, which would weigh no less that thirty pounds. The joke must have been well received, for it survives in four copies, all from Sultantepe. N.K. Sandars
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His stories were not always new, but there was in the telling of them a special kind of magic. His voice could roll like thunder or hush down into a zepherlike whisper. He could imitate the voices of a dozen men at once; whistle so like a bird that the birds themselves would come to him to hear what he had to say; and when when he imitated the howl of a wolf, the sound could raise the hair on the backs of his listeners' necks and strike a chill into their hearts like the depths of a Drasnian winter. He could make the sound of rain and of wind and even, most miraculously, the sound of snow falling. . David Eddings
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Careful, mother, or you could end up dangling in another's webs. Karen Azinger
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We've seen firsthand the footprints of the Mordant's treachery. Karen Azinger
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Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten. Karen Azinger
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In the beginning there was only Darkness. Karen Azinger
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Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge. Karen Azinger
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Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control. Karen Azinger
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Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form. Karen Azinger
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Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time. Karen Azinger
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Splendor was the decree of the day. Karen Azinger
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There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world... BillieJo Williams
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Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present. Mary E. DeMuth
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Give Compassion: Every day the average person fights epic battles never told just to survive. Ken Poirot
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Confidence don't mean jack shit in the real world, sis, " she once said. I feel myself finding the courage to trust those words more and more with every twist of the knife. Coincidentally, last Tuesday afternoon I was involuntarily exposed to the punch line of an old wise tale that goes something like: "There's beauty that can be found in everything." But why can't the insensitive cunt who said that ever find the courage to look in the mirror? Because poopycock, one might say. Dave Matthes
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He looked up at the stars as the storm closed in and saw them extinguished, one-by-one, until just two remained. They glimmered and shone through gaps in the clouds like two great eyes in the darkness, burning on a demon’s face that chased him across the sea. Brooke Burgess
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There are demons within. And they're the deadliest kind. Unknown
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Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those. Homer
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But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it. Homer
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It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together, and the vastness of the known and the unknown were somehow easier to comprehend. Cristina M. Sburlea
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Courage comes in the form of a girl. Karen Azinger
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His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw benieath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg. Herman Melville
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I'm not the one with the problem its the world who seems to have a problem with me Shrek Movie
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A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. Johnny Rich
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Do you know which is the greatest epic till date? K. Hari Kumar
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I'm almost finished, " said Wilhelm, wiping out a line with his sleeve and drawing over it." I never doubted you for a moment, " said Vex, then looked at Aurora and spoke more softly. "I actually doubted him the whole time. He's really not very good." Wilhelm turned. "I'm standing right in front of you. I can hear literally every sound you make."" Wilhelm, please, " said Vex, "this is a private conversation. Derek Landy
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Oh, Jatel, I am so used. Would you rid yourself of me?" the knight started to cry. Jatel slowly kissed the woman upon her forehead. To the Gods! how he loved her so. Not for the world entire, sire. Donald Allen Kirch
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And on the pedestal these words appear:
' My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
 Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! '
 Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
 Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
 The lone and level sands stretch far away. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Darkness will always be...its own master... C.K. Mullinax
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Thus spake brave Horatius, the captain of the gate. To all men upon this Earth, death cometh soon or late. And what better way to die, than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of ones' fathers, and the temples of ones' G/Ds? For the tender mother, who dandled him to rest. And for the wife, who nurses his baby at her breast. And for the holy maidens, who feed the eternal flame. To save them from false sextus, that wrought the deed of shame. Lay down the bridge, Sir Consul, with all the speed ye may. I, with two more at either side, shall hold the foe in play. In Yon straight path a thousand may well be stop by three. Now who will stand on either hand and hold the bridge with me?. Thomas Babington Macaulay
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It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow. Rick Yancey
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Now the day has ended, its brief excitements already an imperfect memory. Barnaby Allen
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So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement? Norton Juster
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Over his shoulder, she saw Skulduggery walk in. "Oh, hell, " she muttered. Wreath's smile reappeared. "It's Skulduggery, isn't it?" Over his shoulder, she saw Skulduggery walk in. "Oh , hell, " she muttered. Wreath's smile reappeared. "It's Skulduggery, isn't it?"" Please don't annoy him."" Me? When have I EVER annoyed the great Skulduggery Pleasant?"Skulduggery arrived at their table. Wreath smile up at him. "Hello.""I will shoot you in the eye, " Skulduggery said. Wreath glanced at Valkyrie. "I think I've annoyed him. Derek Landy
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I am Detective Inspector Me. This is my partner, Detective Her."The traffic warden frowned. "Her?""Me, " said Stephanie."Him?""Not me, " said Skulduggery. "Her.""Me, " said Stephanie."You?" said the traffic warden." Yes, " said Stephanie. "I'm sorry, who are you?" Stephanie looked at him. "I'm Her, he's Me. Got it? Derek Landy
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I'd say, " the Ranger answered after a few seconds' deliberation, "that he'll be heading south now that he has the chance. Back into Araluen.""How do you know that?" Horace asked. He was always impressed at the two Rangers' ability to read a situation and come up with the correct answer to a problem. Sometimes, he thought, they almost seemed to have divine guidance." I'm guessing, " Halt told him. . John Flanagan
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The door handle turned. Someone knocked, and a man's voice called, "Uh, hello?" Valkyrie looked at Skulduggery, looked back at the others, looked at Skulduggery again." Hello, " Skulduggery said, speaking loudly to be heard over the alarm. "Hi, " said the man. "The door's locked."" Is it?"" Yes."" That's funny" said Skulduggery. "Hold on a moment." He reached out, jiggled the handle a few times, then stepped back. "Yes, it's locked. You wouldn't happen to have the key, would you?" There was a delay in response from the other side. "I'm sorry, " the man called, "Who am I speaking . Derek Landy
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As it 'appens, I am Arthur's right-hand man, " said Suzy. "Or left-hand girl, I can't remember where I stood last time. Anyhow, me and Arthur is like two fingers of a gauntlet. Or at least the thumb and the little finger. I mean, I'm his top General, and all. So if I say you're in, you're in. Garth Nix
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Please don't arrest me."" Listen to me, I'm not going to arrest you, ok? I'm not a cop."" Are you sure?"" Am I sure I'm not a cop? yes, I'm sure."" You could be undercover. Derek Landy
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You promise?"" I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now. Derek Landy
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I can't tell you how may beautiful women have broken up with me because they were bored. I can't tell you because it never happened. They all adored me." "It was your humility, wasn't it? Derek Landy
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This isn't the first time I've used this, and the test subject showed no signs of impaired cognitive ability."" Who was the test subject?" asked Aurora."I test everything out on myself before taking it into the field." She stared at him. "You zapped your own brain?"" And it didn't do me any harm apart from the dizziness and the vomiting spells and the weirdly persistent ringing in my ears. Also the blackouts and the mood swings and the creeping paranoia. Apart from that, zero side effects, if you don't count the numb fingertips. Which I don't. Derek Landy
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What are we going to do when we get into the temple, anyway? Are we going to fight our way through the Necromancers on our Derek Landy
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I was going straight for Mantis, but then that bloody gas got in my eyes and, I don't know, some massive bloke reared up in front of me. I hit him, but I swear, it was like hiting a wall." Gracious nodded. "You hit a wall." Maybury blinked at him. "I what?"" I saw it. You ran into a cloud of gas and stumbled around for a second until you reached a wall, and then you shrieked and punched it. It was very heroic. Derek Landy
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Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10, 000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers. William Shatner
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My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live! Amy Lee
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. Victor Hugo