Priam Quotes

• 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.

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  Homer

  Inspirational   Teenager   Struggle  

  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.316, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

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  Charles Caleb Colton

  Children   Heaven   Wish  

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.29

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• Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!

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  Homer

  Military   War   Fall  

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• After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

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  Umberto Eco

  Passion   Fire   Light  

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Homer

  Beautiful   Rage From The Iliad   Chaos  

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• 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.

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  Brad Pitt

  Life   Beautiful   Envy  

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• And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

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  Homer

  Memories   Father   Grief  

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• He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

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  Martial

  Life   Thinking   Long  

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.293

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

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  Homer

  Men   Alive   Earth  

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

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