Trinity > Trinity's Quotes

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“We men are wretched things.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“His descent was like nightfall.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Beauty! Terrible Beauty!
A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!”
― Homer, The Iliad

“There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. ”
― Homer, The Iliad

“The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?”
― Homer, The Iliad

“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, The Iliad

“Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?”
― Homer, The Iliad

“You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!”
― Homer, The Iliad

“The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!”
― Homer, The Iliad

“The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him”
― Homer, The Iliad

“My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Hell hath no fury like a goddess scorned”
― Bernard Knox, The Iliad

“But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“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.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?”
― Homer, The Iliad

“It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Even a fool may be wise after the event.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“...of all creatures that breathe and move on earth
none is more to be pitied than a man.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable”
― Homer, The Iliad