Aphrodite Quotes

• But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily. -Aphrodite

  Rick Riordan

  Perfect, Trying, Fit

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• There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

  Sara Teasdale

  Love, Pain, Heart

  Sara Teasdale (1911). “Helen of Troy, and Other Poems”

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• The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

  Aeschylus

  Strong, Rain, Animal

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• Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.

  Esther M. Friesner

  Zeus, Thunderbolts

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• Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

  Isabel Allende

  Two, Lust, Opinion

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• The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find at work in themselves whenever they feel joy, love and peace. Strife, on the other hand, is the force responsible for the dissolution of the one back into its many, the four elements of which it was composed.

  Empedocles

  Love Is, Hands, Four Elements

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• In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.

  Pindar

  Sweet, Flower, Lovely

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?" "Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?" "Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.

  Rick Riordan

  True Love, War, Heart

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Comfort is for the lazy and the ugly." Aphrodite

  P. C. Cast

  Lazy, Comfort, Ugly

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• Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen.

  Rick Riordan

  Queens, Warrior, Towns

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• Oh, dear Hazel.” Aphrodite folded her fan. “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Evil, Optimism

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• It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Beautiful, Female, Variation

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• Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry!

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Fun, Love You

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• No days such honored days as these! While yet
  Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide
  For some fair thing which should forever bide
  On earth, her beauteous memory to set
  In fitting frame that no age could forget,
  Her name in lovely April's name did hide,
  And leave it there, eternally allied
  To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Memories, Spring, Flower

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “A Calendar Of Sonnets: April”

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• Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies.

  P. C. Cast

  Baby

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.632, Macmillan

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• One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
  The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
  Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
  And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Cities, Voice

  "In Memory of Sigmund Freud" l. 109 (1939)

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• Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite

  P. C. Cast

  Mother, Memories, People

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• I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously

  Rick Riordan

  War, Tea, Annabeth

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• Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart. Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean.

  Rick Riordan

  Heart, Mean, Mythology

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• Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo hold the added sweetness of a song.There is a quiet at the heart of love,And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

  Sara Teasdale

  Daughter, Song, Pain

  Sara Teasdale (1911). “Helen of Troy, and Other Poems”

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• Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite

  P. C. Cast

  Dying, Sake, Crap

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• Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.

  P. C. Cast

  Superhero, Nerd, Sidekicks

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Untamed: A House of Night Novel”, p.67, Macmillan

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• She wondered if it was her stupid mother, the goddess of love, messing with her thoughts. If Piper started getting urges to read fashion magazines, she was going to have to find Aphrodite and smack her.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Fashion, Stupid

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• The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

  Henry Adams

  Women, Science, Isis

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.187, Penguin

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• If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground

  Raquel Cepeda

  Travel, Home, Years

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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