Best Greek Myths Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Fates were heard as winds To our ears they ran faster and threw their voices further than we could understand Thus we watched the tides reaching out slowly and thin on to barely felt journeys The shuddering tides whose movements became of our own body Familiar and well-used and unremarkable to us”

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Book:Mystical Tides

Source: Mystical Tides

“In Greek myth, Circe was a sorceress and a goddess born of the sun god Helios and the ocean nymph Perse. And a powerful sorceress she was, so adept at incantations that she could morph men into animals to keep them enslaved to her on her island.”

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Book:National Geographic The History of Witchcraft

Source: National Geographic The History of Witchcraft

“Why would anyone love a monster?' asked Perseus. 'Who are you to decide who is worthy of love?' said Hermes. 'I mean, I wasn't...' 'And who are you to decide who is a monster?' added the messenger god.”

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Book:Stone Blind: Medusa's Story

Source: Stone Blind: Medusa's Story

“How can I put the Auras back in the chest?” I asked, terror boiling inside my stomach. “You can’t. Not if those that were or will be struck by them won’t be eager to express their feelings and let you help them. You do not change people, dearie. It’s the people that change themselves. You’re the Guardian, but they’re the bearers,” the Oracle whispered. “I’m no Guardian. I’m doomed!” I said and I knew that this was true.”

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Book:Guardian of the Auras

Source: Guardian of the Auras

“It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance.”

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Book:Chasing Odysseus

Source: Chasing Odysseus

“The sun, the moon, the ocean– these were all the children of Ouranos and Gaia. They had hundreds more, and they were the grandparents of the gods and of human beings. Ouranos didn’t make any of this out of nothing, and neither did God. There had to be a wife.”

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Book:Cut

Source: Cut

“You know, Mac,”Cadmus said still looking out the window. “We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently it’s not amusing enough.” “I’ll try to include a joke between ‘he bled to death’and ‘the city burned’.”Machaon responded tersely.”

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Book:Chasing Odysseus

Source: Chasing Odysseus

“I know who you are, daughter of the sun. All that the sea touches comes to me at last in the depths. I have tasted you. I have tasted all your family. Your brother came once also seeking my power. He went away empty-handed, like all the rest. I am not such a one as you may fight.”

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Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“Are we Greeks, or are we barbarians?”

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Author:Pietros Maneos

“But this is ruin! New waves breaking in To wreck us, ere we are righted from the old!”

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Book:Medea

Source: Medea

“The curse had fallen upon her shoulders, one that she had taken willingly at the time. But her regrets increased with time, much like the threads she added to the tapestries she wove.”

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Book:Web Of Lies: A Goddesses In Love Novella

Source: Web Of Lies: A Goddesses In Love Novella

“Hero,” he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father’s. “Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the Trojans. We are of the Herdsmen.”

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Book:Chasing Odysseus

Source: Chasing Odysseus

“What could you possibly write at Gates of Hades?” Cadmus asked. “Keep your spirits up.” Lycon sheathed the dagger he’d used to chisel the trunk. Cadmus shook his head. “Idiot.”

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Book:Chasing Odysseus

Source: Chasing Odysseus

“He has been known to devour men.” “He’s a cannibal?” Cadmus asked in horror. “Well, not really,” Daemon replied. “He is a Cyclops. He does not eat his own kind — just men and only those who challenge him … he does not hunt them.”

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Book:Chasing Odysseus

Source: Chasing Odysseus

“Hero,” said Machaon to his sister who was still muttering to her gods. “Please stop. Surely the gods would have heard you by now … let’s try not to annoy them.”

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Book:Chasing Odysseus

Source: Chasing Odysseus

“Are the legends true?” asked Cadmus. “Of course they are,” replied Pan. “We live in an age of legends.”

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Book:Chasing Odysseus

Source: Chasing Odysseus

“Kerényi was as aware as anybody today of the territorial limits of Greek myths and of the non-importability of Hermes. He writes: “In his ‘such-ness,’ he is an historical fact that cannot, by strict and honest historical means, be reduced to something else: neither to a concept, to a ‘power,’ nor to a ‘spirit’ – a gravestone or signpost spirit – not even to an idea that would not contain in a nutshell everything that Hermes’ ‘such-ness’ constitutes.” … Working more in Hermes’ own sleight of hand way, Kerényi is soon saying things like this: “If a god is ‘idea’ and ‘world,’ he remains nonetheless in connection with the world that contains all such ‘worlds’; he can only be an ‘aspect of the world,’ while the world of which he is an aspect possesses such idea-aspects.” Now, if you will let Kerényi get away with a statement like that – and I hope you will – you will end up owning the Brooklyn Bridge. … Kerényi’s Hermes is the only one that is going to rob you or enrich you, enlighten you or screw you. … “Guide of Souls” is the usual translation given to the Hermes-epithet “Psychopompos” and it refers to his role as the god who leads souls into the underworld when they die. But πομπóς (still present in every French funeral store’s “Pompes funèbres” description of itself) is more than guide, and even more than guide to the underworld. It means to lead, but Hermes as leader is not quite right either. It means something more like to lead on. Hermes is the god who “leads you on.” … This means he is deceiving you, taking advantage of your gullibility, “taking you for a ride.” That, however, is how Hermes works, and how he gets your soul to move anywhere, how he gets you to budge even a hair off whatever you’re in … . … Go ahead and buy the Brooklyn Bridge from this man. Be had. Be incorrect. Be foolish. You pay with your soul for this kind of reading. And Hermes does not take plastic.”

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Book:Hermes: Guide of Souls

Source: Hermes: Guide of Souls

“I'd had years of practise looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff.”

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Book:The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

“Eventually, Krysomallos would be skinned for his fleece, which became known as the Golden Fleece, which means I am related to a sheepskin rug. This is why you don't want to think too hard about who you're related to in the Greek myths. It'll drive you crazy.”

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Book:Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible that you couldn't survive even looking at it. Until I got a little older and I figured out the obvious answer. Everything.”

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Book:The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity

Source: The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity

“As the generations pass they grow worse. A time will come when they have grown so wicked that they will worship power; might will be right to them and reverence for the good will cease to be. At last, when no man is angry any more at wrongdoing or feels shame in the presence of the miserable, Zeus will destroy them too. And yet even then something might be done, if only the common people would rise and put down rulers that oppress them.”

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Author:Greek myth on the Iron Age