136 Quotes About Achilles

...all the grace I saw then was his own: simple, unadorned, glorious.

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall.

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.

I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how long do we have?

He looked like a man who could survive a couple of flesh wounds, but then so had Achilles and Caesar.

...in his wild grief Achilles cried aloud, and his mother Thetis heard him...Immediately she rose up through the water...after her came her sisters...and each one's wailing was the thin sound of the wind upon the waves.

Okonkwo was ruled by one passion -- to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness.

You've injured me, Farshooter, most deadly of the gods; And I'd punish you, if I had the power.