31 Quotes About Odysseus

"You still can’t touch me.” “But you’re still my goddess?” “Because I’m still your goddess."

"But she’d always watched. She had always made sure he was safe. Will I fail this time? Will I finally have to watch him die, not in his bed an old man but young, and soon, and painfully?"

"Helden sind Dummköpfe, hatte ich entgegnet. Er hatte gelacht. Da sind wir uns einig."

"Du trauerst nicht um deinen Vater? - Doch. Ich betrauere, dass ich nie den Vater kennengelernt habe, von dem mir alle erzählen."

"Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveller, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none."

"What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory… We are men only, a brief flare of the torch."

"Stan has decided to kill off all the crew of Discovery and leave Bowman only. Drastic, but it seems right. After all, Odysseus was the sole survivor."

"Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth,our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man.So long as the gods grant him power, spring in his knees,he thinks he will never suffer affliction down the years.But then, when the happy gods bring on the long hard times,bear them he must, against his will, and steel his heart.Our lives, our mood and mind as we pass across the earth,turn as the days turn...as the father of men and gods make each day dawn."

"I too seemed destined to be a man of fortune onceand a wild wicked swath I cut, indulged my lust for violence,stalking all on my father and my brothers.Look at me now,And so, I say, let no man ever be lawless all his life,just take in peace what gifts the gods will send."