From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.
It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.
Music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world.
I think in any movie really the two most interesting parts are the protagonist and the antagonist.
Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.
So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.
The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.
Self-love. . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.
It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.
I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.
If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.
We need to learn how to handle critique and how to address an antagonist.
Where you have a villain in the piece or the antagonist, whatever you want to call them, there has to be humanity at the core of it or it's faintly ridiculous. Nobody is just villain through and through. You have to feel something for them.
