Best The Odyssey Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I’ve never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey' nights while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman.”

Women Travel Sleeping Wandering Payne Alexander The Great The Odyssey The Iliad

Book:Rooftop Soliloquy

Source: Rooftop Soliloquy

“Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame upon us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given”

Evil Mortality Gods Homer The Odyssey

Book:Homer's Odyssey

Source: Homer's Odyssey

“So it is that the gods do not bestow graces in all ways on men, neither in stature nor yet in brains or eloquence; for there is a certain kind of man, less noted for beauty, but the god puts comeliness on his words, and they who look toward him are filled with joy at the sight, and he speaks to them without faltering in winning modesty, and shines among those who are gathered, and people look on him as on a god when he walks in the city. Another again in his appearance is like the immortals, but upon his words there is no grace distilled, as in your case the appearance is conspicuous, and not a god even would make it otherwise, and yet the mind there is worthless.”

Beauty Intelligence Gods Goddesses Homer The Odyssey

Book:The Odyssey of Homer / translated by George Herbert Palmer. 1892 [Leather Bound]

Source: The Odyssey of Homer / translated by George Herbert Palmer. 1892 [Leather Bound]

“I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one’s eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. ‘This may be my last moon,’ I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey.”

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Author:Roman Payne

“The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age.”

Love Youth Couple Jealousy The Odyssey Penelope Grow Old

Book:The odyssey

Source: The odyssey

“Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveller, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and in return let me pretend that I had none.”

Scars Circe Odysseus The Odyssey Aiaia

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“Living with him was like standing beside the sea. Each day a different colour, a different foam-capped height, but always the same restless intensity pulling towards the horizon.”

Circe Odysseus The Odyssey Aiaia

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“When night falls and the world lies lost in sleep, I take to my bed, my heart throbbing, about to break, anxieties swarming, piercing—I may go mad with grief.”

Greek Mythology Homer The Odyssey The Iliad

Book:The odyssey

Source: The odyssey

“I was adrift on the high seas, but my course was becoming clear. It lay between the scylla of my peers and the swirling, sucking charybdis of my family. Veering toward scylla seemed much the safer route, and after navigating the passage, I soon washed up, a bit stunned, on a new shore. Like Odysseus on the island of the cyclops, I found myself facing a "being of colossal strength and ferocity, to whom the law of man and god meant nothing." In true heroic fashion, I moved toward the thing I feared. Yet while Odysseus schemed desperately to escape Polyphemus's cave, I found that I was quite content to stay here forever.”

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Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“All right then. Here's my story. Even though it plunges me into deeper grief than I feel now. But that's the way of the world, when one has been so far from home, so long away as I, roving over many cities of men, enduring many hardships.”

Greek Mythology Homer The Odyssey The Iliad

Book:The odyssey

Source: The odyssey

“One speech in't I chiefly loved. T'was Aeneas' tale to Dido; and thereabout of it especially when he speaks of Priam's slaughter. If it live in your memory, begin at this line”

Death Hamlet Polonius Aeneas The Odyssey Dido Claudius Patricide The Illiad

Book:Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.”

Inspirational Inspirational Quotes Homer The Odyssey

Book:The odyssey

Source: The odyssey

“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.”

Women Sleep Dreams Greek Heroism Classics Roman Homer Alexander The Great The Odyssey The Iliad Waning Moon

Book:Rooftop Soliloquy

Source: Rooftop Soliloquy

“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a wanderer. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.”

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Book:Rooftop Soliloquy

Source: Rooftop Soliloquy