Iliad Quotes

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

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

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

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

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

Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.

His descent was like nightfall.

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

Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

Victory passes back and forth between men.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.