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Medusa Quotes

You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.

You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.

Helene Cixous
Beautiful, Laughing, Medusa
"The Laugh of the Medusa". Article by Hélène Cixous, Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen. Signs, Volume 1, No. 4, pp. 875-893, www.jstor.org. Summer 1976.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Archibald MacLeish
Men, Forever, Medusa

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

Mason Cooley
Mirrors, Sorrow, Medusa

If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Women, Medusa, Stones
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

I've been prepping for my role as Medusa.

Joaquin Phoenix
Medusa, Roles

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”)

Thomas Ligotti
Heart, Enlightenment, Medusa

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

R. D. Laing
Hero, Medusa, Stones

Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.

Christopher Hitchens
Power, Majority, Medusa

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

Aldous Huxley
Technology, Yield, Medusa
Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see of we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence.

R. D. Laing
Hero, Medusa, Benefits

The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.

John Updike
Trying, Medusa, Steps

Look, ladies, we've been over this. I don't even remember killing Medusa. I don't remember anything! Can't we just call a truce and talk about your weekly specials?" Stheno gave her sister a pouty look, which was hard to do with giant bronze tusks. "Can we?

Rick Riordan
Medusa, Giants, Looks

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