Helen of Troy Quotes

“When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love.”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy

“Some things can be recovered. Some things can be restored. But some lost things, we seek forever.”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy

“Omens. If I were beginning again, starting out in life, I would ignore all omens, neither heeding them nor trying to disable them. If we chose to pass them by, then perhaps they would lose their power, as old gods and goddesses, no longer worshiped, fade away and lose their grip on us.”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy

“The war at Troy seemed to grow in song, poetry, and story all the while. As it faded from living memory, it grew larger and larger. Men claimed descent from one or the other of the heroes, or, failing that, anyone who had fought in the war, which now assumed the stature of a clash between the gods and the titans.”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy

“The age of heroes had truly passed, and Tisamenus could not be one even if he burned for it. A great bronze wall had been erected around those old heroes, it descended from the sky, and no one could lift it or trespass there. Each age bestowed its own glory, but the age of my grandson could not be the age of Menelaus.”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy

“They also say that our best revenge against death is to live each day and extract its joys to the full.”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy

“When actions do not square with words, trust the actions. Choose what you see people do, not what you imagine they would like to do.”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy

“Nonetheless, a great number have flocked to the call.” Hector frowned. “A warrior tends to lose his reluctance once he puts on his helmet.”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy

“Troy deserves her doom, then!” said Cassandra. “I leave it to you. I shall perish with you! But I see my end, whereas you are blind.”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy

“seek for that one person who can love us as we all long to be loved.”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy

“But the gods do not love. And so we”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy

“I know now that to die without tasting this is truly not to have lived. In this, and this only, have we lived: to feel all, to dare all, to try all.”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy

“Can we envision our own face? I think not. I think we imagine ourselves invisible, with no face at all, able to blend perfectly with everything around us.”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy

“After this, they ruled my life, the soothsayers, the fixed limits of the gods, the parameters that defined me.”
― Margaret George, Helen of Troy