Iliad Quotes

• Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. 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

  Grief, Fate, Men

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• 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.

  Stefan Zweig

  Fate, Men, Brave

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• Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Fool Me Once

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• Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

  Homer

  Son, Rage From The Iliad, Achilles

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• Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

  Homer

  Sadness, Flames, Land

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• The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

  Homer

  War, Men, Hands

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• It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

  Homer

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• 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

  Lying, Men, Civilization

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• Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall

  Homer

  Hate, Fall, Men

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad & The Odyssey”, p.337, Booklassic

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• Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.

  Homer

  Spring, Men, Wind

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• Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

  Homer

  Daughter, Men, Feet

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• It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

  Homer

  Fighting, Strive, Ifs

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• A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.

  Homer

  Spring, Men, Wind

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• 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

  Inspirational, Teenager, Struggle

  Homer (2013). “The Iliad: An Epic Poem About the Trojan War, the Ten-Year Siege of the City of Troy (Ilium) by a Coalition of Greek States - Battles and Events During the Weeks of a Quarrel Between King Agamemnon and the Warrior Achilles (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.316, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

  Homer

  Dog, Moving, Loss

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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• And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

  Homer

  Memories, Father, Grief

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• He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

  Homer

  Would Be

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  Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Homer

  Beautiful, Rage From The Iliad, Chaos

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• A man's life breath cannot come back again--
  no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
  once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

  Homer

  Death, Men, Rage From The Iliad

  Homer, Derek Jacobi (2006). “The Iliad”, Highbridge Co

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• Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

  Homer

  Men, Brave, Honor

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• A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Men, Done

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

  Aldous Huxley

  Names, Ifs

  Aldous Huxley (1928). “Those barren leaves”

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• A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

  Raymond Queneau

  Rehabilitation, Creation, Concern

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• The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

  George Saintsbury

  Romance, Stories, West

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.11, tredition

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• The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

  Raymond Queneau

  People, Disorder, Thrown

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