Homer Quotes

some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

There will be killing till the score is paid.

The journey is the thing.

And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching
Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself,
Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again
And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

Few sons are like their fathers — most are worse, few better.

Now from his breast into the eyes the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms,
longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer
spent in rough water where his ship went down
under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea.
Few men can keep alive through a big serf
to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches
in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind:
and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband,
her white arms round him pressed as though forever.

Beauty! Terrible Beauty!
A deathless Goddess — so she strikes our eyes!

If you serve too many masters, you'll soon suffer.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

out of sight,out of mind

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

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.