Rage From The Iliad Quotes - Page 2

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

  Homer

  Men, Alive, Earth

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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• And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.

  Stefan Zweig

  Fate, Men, Brave

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• Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.

  Homer

  Fighting, Men, Blood

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• His descent was like nightfall.

  Homer

  Nightfall, Descent, Fate In The Iliad

  Homer (1950). “The Iliad”, Turtleback

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• No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

  Homer

  Destiny, Men, Brave

  Homer (1901). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.207

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• I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

  Homer

  Heart, Men, Mind

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.402, University of Chicago Press

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• Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth.

  Homer

  Sky, Earth, Firsts

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• But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.

  Homer

  Looks, Use, Firsts

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• And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!

  Homer

  Grief, Son, Blood

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• All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

  Homer

  Daughter, Eye, Men

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.262, Xist Publishing

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• The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Brad Pitt

  Life, Beautiful, Envy

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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, Forget, Fate In The Iliad

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

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• A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

  Herodotus

  Kings, Good Things, Fate In The Iliad

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