Fate In The Iliad Quotes:

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

- Homer

topic: Son, Achilles, Muse, Iliad, Fate In 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

topic: Inspirational, Teenager, Struggle, Iliad, Fate In The Iliad

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

topic: Grief, Fate, Men, Iliad, Fate In The Iliad

I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

- Homer

source: "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

topic: Life, Beautiful, Envy, Iliad, Inevitability

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

- Homer

topic: Fighting, Fate, Men, Fate In The Iliad

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

- Homer

topic: Destiny, Men, Brave, Fate In The Iliad, Rage From The Iliad

Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.

- Homer

topic: Grief, Heart, Giving, Dear Heart, Fate In The Iliad

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

source: "Iliad: Book XIV". Book by Homer (p.216 - 217), 750 BC.

topic: Men, Mad, Magic, Fate In The Iliad, Rage From 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.

- Stefan Zweig

topic: Fate, Men, Brave, Iliad, Fate In The Iliad

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

topic: Spring, Men, Wind, Iliad, Fate In The Iliad

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

- Homer

topic: Country, Men, Brave, Brave Man, Fate In The Iliad

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

- Homer

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

topic: Men, Alive, Earth, Iliad, Fate In The Iliad

All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

- Homer

source: Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.262, Xist Publishing

topic: Daughter, Eye, Men, Eldest, Fate In 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

source: 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.353, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Father, Thinking, Compassion, Iliad, Fate In The Iliad

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

- Homer

topic: Wife, Rage From The Iliad, Fields, Vulture, Fate In The Iliad

Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.

- Homer

topic: Mother, Strong, Powerful, Deathless, Patroclus

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

topic: Lying, Men, Civilization, Iliad, Fate In The Iliad

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

topic: Daughter, Men, Feet, Eldest Daughter, Iliad

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!

- Homer

source: Homer (1996). “Homer in English”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Eye, Rage From The Iliad, Goddess, Fate In The Iliad, Achilles Fate

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

- Herodotus

topic: Kings, Rage From The Iliad, Good Things, Iliad, Fate In 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

topic: Running, War, Heart, Fate In The Iliad, Rage From The Iliad

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off—all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms… That’s how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears.

- Homer

topic: Girl, Mother, Running, Patroclus, Fate In The Iliad

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

- Homer

source: HOMER (1961). “THE ODYSSEY”

topic: Men, Rage From The Iliad, Sacred, Fate In The Iliad, Achilles Fate

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!

- Homer

topic: Grief, Son, Blood, Fate In The Iliad, Rage From The Iliad

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.

- Homer

topic: Kings, Hate, Men, Hate Him, Fate In The Iliad

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

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

topic: Hate, Fall, Men, Between You And Me, Iliad

His descent was like nightfall.

- Homer

source: Homer (1950). “The Iliad”, Turtleback

topic: Rage From The Iliad, Nightfall, Descent, Fate In The Iliad, Achilles Fate

Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.

- Homer

topic: Fighting, Men, Blood, Fate In The Iliad, Rage From The Iliad

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

- Homer

source: Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.419, University of Chicago Press

topic: Hurt, Past, Doe, Fate In The Iliad, Rage From The Iliad

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

topic: Death, Men, Teeth, Iliad, Back Again

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

- Homer

topic: Summer, Stars, Ocean, Fate In The Iliad, Rage From The Iliad

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

- Homer

source: Homer (2013). “The Iliad: The Story of Troy - Rendered Into English Prose (by Samuel Butler) for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original”, p.132, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Rage From The Iliad, Life Is, Wealth, Fate In The Iliad, Achilles Fate

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.

- Homer

source: Homer (2012). “The Iliad”, p.74, Courier Corporation

topic: Men, Brave, Coward, Iliad, Hades

The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

- Brad Pitt

topic: Life, Beautiful, Envy, Fate In The Iliad, Priam

But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.

- Homer

topic: Looks, Use, Rage From The Iliad, Fate In The Iliad, Achilles Fate

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

source: Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.2114, Delphi Classics

topic: House, Rage From The Iliad, Forget, Hades, Fate In The Iliad

Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth.

- Homer

topic: Sky, Earth, Firsts, Fate In The Iliad, Rage From The Iliad

I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

- Homer

source: Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.402, University of Chicago Press

topic: Heart, Men, Mind, Dripping, Iliad