Hydra Quotes

“Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“...none of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in the true sense, very different from today's assessment-mad exam culture.”
― Richard Dawkins, An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

“From the necks up... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra.”
― Tera Lynn Childs, Sweet Venom

“Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you.”
― Anca Ioviţă

“Days of Kindness

Greece is a good place
to look at the moon, isn’t it”
― Kari Hesthamar, So Long, Marianne: A Love Story

“Hell and Heaven are states of being, not destinations. They are worlds we carry within. Don't expect to find angels and demons -- not in the way you've envisioned them. As God is called Allah, so Man is called Monster. Don't be fooled by titles. Call a skunk a rose and it will continue to reek.

Hydras do not crawl out from between the weatherworn pages of fairytale anthologies. On the contrary, they ride the subway and order food at the local drive-through and enjoy stolen kisses at the cinema. Only one head is visible to the naked eye. They tend to avoid reflective surfaces.

Each head is a sin: each belch of fire is a sin put to action. But you should know that the shadows differ. There may be seven heads, or three, or one. Those with one head are particularly tricky. Who's to say if they're human or hydra? You'd have to kiss them, bite them. You would know them by their mouth. The name of their sin is tattooed on the inside of their bottom lip, so they can lick and taste its sweetness.”
― Angela Panayotopulos, The Wake Up

“Knowledge is akin to the Lernaean Hydra's heads, multiplying as soon as one head is severed. The more knowledge you attain, the more you find yourself searching for answers to new questions.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“After a nine-headed Hydra, the ACT was kind of a letdown.”
― Amy Wolf, The Twelve Labors of Nick

“Cut off one head, two more shall take its place.”
― Red Skull