The quote "Unhappy is the land that needs a hero." is famous quote by Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German poet, playwright, theatre director.
Scene 12, p. 115
Variant translations: Pity the country that needs heroes.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes
Source: Andrea: Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero.
Galileo: No, Andrea: Unhappy is the land that needs a hero. [Unglücklich das Land, das Helden nötig hat. ]
“America was the land where people still believed in heroes.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Context: America was the country in which the dynamic myth of the Renaissance — that every man was potentially extraordinary — knew its most passionate persistence. Simply, America was the land where people still believed in heroes.
“The gods need heroes. They always have.”
Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian
Source: The Last Olympian
“It's not just children who need heroes.”
Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children
“If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Egwene al'Vere
(7 January 2003)
“Such patience have the heroes who begin,
Sailing the first toward lands which others win.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
The Legend of Jubal (1869)
Context: Such patience have the heroes who begin,
Sailing the first toward lands which others win.
Jubal must dare as great beginners dare,
Strike form's first way in matter rude and bare,
And, yearning vaguely toward the plenteous choir
Of the world's harvest, make one poor small lyre.
“You need to find yourself a new hero." - Skulduggery Pleasant.”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: Death Bringer
“We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Wall and Piece (2005)
