Iliad Quotes

“My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I will not return alive but my name will live forever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Choose,' she says, reaching out towards him. 'Choose to which of us the apple most belongs...”
― Emily Hauser, For the Most Beautiful

“In this night too, in this night of his mortal eyes into which he was now descending, love and danger were again waiting...
a murmur of glory and hexameters, of men defending a temple the gods will not save, and of black vessels searching the sea for a beloved isle;
the murmor of the Odysseys and Iliads it was his destiny to sing and leave echoing concavely in the memory of man.
These things we know, but not those he felt descending into the last shade of all.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Homer’s Iliad was the cultural encyclopedia of pre-literate Greece, the didactic vehicle that provided men with guidance for the management of their spiritual, ethical, and social lives.”
― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

“We all make war, but not all can bring forth life.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Song of Princes

“Love is a poison,' her father responded. 'One you grow accustomed to, but does not kill you.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Song of Princes

“She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the only man she'd ever loved.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Song of Princes

“Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch you might find beneath your bed.”
― Christopher Logue, War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad

“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Rise of Princes

“Do all in Troy despise me?'
'That is a strong word, my sweet.'
The young Queen of Sparta pulled away from her lover's arms. 'It is true then. I have exchanged one prison for another.'
Paris gently brushed her cheek with his hand. 'If that is true, we are the most fortunate of prisoners. For we have each other and our love.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Rise of Princes

“Fate always found its mark, one way or another.”
― Janell Rhiannon, Rise of Princes