Homer's Odyssey Quotes

#1. When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'

Franz Wright

#2. I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish.' Homer, The Odyssey

Andy Miller

#3. The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name.

Oscar Wilde

#4. It's all about money. Sometimes it is merciful, sometimes it is magnificent and sometimes it is moderate

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#5. But sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away

Homer

#6. Goddess of song, teach me the story
of a hero.

Homer

#7. And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

Homer

#8. He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

Homer

#9. I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.

William Golding

#10. I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

Robert Fitzgerald

#11. Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways,
who was driven far journeys

Homer

#12. Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say - when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be.

Homer

#13. Mistress; please: are you divine, or mortal?

Homer

#14. Love at all times.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.

Jorge Luis Borges

#16. Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming.

Gibson, Chrissy

#17. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

Homer

#18. Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#19. Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices

Homer

#20. I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book.

Brian K. Vaughan

#21. And what if one of the gods does wreck me out on the wine-dark sea? I have a heart that is inured to suffering and I shall steel it to endure that too. For in my day I have had many bitter and painful experiences in war and on the stormy seas. So let this new disaster come. It only makes one more.

Homer

#22. Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the house of somebody else with my lamentation and wailing. It is not good to go on mourning forever.

Homer

#23. Down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went
and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates and past
the Land of Dreams, and soon they reached the fields of asphodel
where the dead, the burnt-out wraiths of mortals make their home

Homer

#24. No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

David Frawley

#25. There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature.

Adam Nicolson