Hades Quotes

• What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades's underwear?

  Rick Riordan

  Underwear, Woven, Adhd

  "The Lightning Thief". Book by Rick Riordan, July 1, 2005.

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• Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?

  Rick Riordan

  Punishment, Eyebrows, Clothes

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• The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

  Anaxagoras

  Death, Suicide, Descent

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers), c. 200 A.D..

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• Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.

  Homer

  House, Rage From The Iliad, Forget

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.2114, Delphi Classics

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• For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.

  Sophocles

  Hell

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• For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Afterlife, Justice

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• Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Children, Race

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• Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!

  Rick Riordan

  Fun, Guy, Trying

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• You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

  Aeschylus

  Book, Men, Justice

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.159, Oxford University Press

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• She grabbed his face and pulled him into a kiss, which effectively shut him up.

  Rick Riordan

  Kissing, Faces, House Of Hades

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• Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.

  Rick Riordan

  Brave, House Of Hades, Nico Di Angelo

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.219, Penguin UK

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• No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

  Homer

  Men, Brave, Coward

  Homer (2012). “The Iliad”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!

  Rick Riordan

  Brain, Annabeth, Seaweed

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• We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.

  Walt Disney

  Home, Kissing

  "Fictional character: Hades". "Hercules", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save.

  Rick Riordan

  Sunset, Rome, Looks

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• Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

  Mary Roach

  Bars, Roaches, Spirit

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.159, Canongate Books

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• For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

  Aeschylus

  Death, House, Path

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.389, Delphi Classics

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• Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.

  Rick Riordan

  Play, Cupid, Laughed

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.214, Penguin UK

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• CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dog, Doe, Watches

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.29, 谷月社

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• The road to Hades is easy to travel.

  Wilfred Bion

  Easy

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• The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.

  Anaxagoras

  Death, Dying, Descent

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• Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.

  Virgil

  Sweet, Dark, Night

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• The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Men, Helping, Invention

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• Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death.

  Gregory Thaumaturgus

  Men, Triumph, Christianity

  Gregory Thaumaturgus (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Gregory Thaumaturgus (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Now fight me! For today thee House of Hades will be called the saviors of Olympus.

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, House, Olympus

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