John > John's Quotes

“Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
― Homer

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

“Of the many things hidden from the knowledge of man, nothing is more unintelligible than the human heart.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“That is the god's work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, and all to make a song for those to come...”
― Homer