Quotessence
Home / Topics / Patroclus Quotes

Patroclus Quotes

Browse 64 quotes about Patroclus.

Patroclus Quotes

“In Homers Ilias scheint Thetis jedenfalls keine Einwände gegen die Beziehung ihres Sohnes Achilles zu Patrokles gehabt zu haben. Und Königin Olympias von Makedonien (eine der mächtigsten Frauen der Antike, die angeblich ihren Mann ermorden ließ) hatte offenbar nichts dagegen, als ihr Sohn Alexander der Große seinen Geliebten Hephaestion zum Essen nach Hause brachte.”

AchillesGermanPatroclusAlexander The GreatPatrochillesHephaestion
Book:Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Create image

“Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.”

MenLooksMotherDiesStrongForceWaitingPowerfulFateSonBattleDiedDawnGreat MenSunsetGoddessBowsHandsomeArrowsNoonSpearsBetter ManDeathlessWhippingPatroclusFate In The IliadRage From The IliadAchilles Fate
Author:Homer
Create image

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth. As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong. “Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”

IfsNeedsLooksLongSaidEnoughHandsBigsSpeakStrongMemoriesHeardLet MeFingersPetalsSlenderSwellingPatroclus
Author:Madeline Miller
Create image