Homer Quotes About Earth

• Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

  Homer

  Moving, Men, Earth

  Homer (1937). “The Odyssey, the Story of Ulysses”

• 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!

  Homer

  Military, War, Fall

• Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big serf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever.

  Homer

  Beach, Husband, Eye

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1963). “The Odyssey”, Anchor

• We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

  Homer

  Men, Race, Flare Up

• Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.

  Homer

  Daughter, Men, Feet

• Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

  Homer

  Men, Earth, Breathe

• For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

  Homer

  Ocean, Science, Earth

• Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.

  Homer

  Primavera, Hombres, Viento

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

  Homer

  Men, Alive, Earth

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

• Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

  Homer

  Hombres, Pensamiento, Tierra

  Homer (2013). “The Iliad: The Story of Troy - Rendered Into English Prose (by Samuel Butler) for the Use of Those Who Cannot Read the Original”, p.73, Lulu Press, Inc

• But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.

  Homer

  Grieving, Winning, Men

  Homer (2008). “Odyssey, Homer”, Spark Publishing Group

• Las generaciones de los hombres son como las hojas. En invierno, los vientos las hacen caer a tierra, pero luego, al llegar de nuevo la primavera, la madera brotada crece más. Así sucede con los hombres: una generación crece, otra muere.

  Homer

  Spring, Winter, Blow

• All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.

  Homer

  Daughter, Eye, Men

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.262, Xist Publishing

• Si eres uno de los habitantes de la tierra, bendito sea tu padre, y tu gentil madre, benditos todos tus parientes. Sé que la felicidad debe hacer brotar cálidas lágrimas de sus ojos, cada vez que ven a su maravillosa hija ir al baile. Pero el destino de un hombre es más que dichoso: el que triunfe y te tome por esposa. Nunca he visto igual belleza en hombre o mujer. Estoy muy callado.

  Homer

  Madre, hijos, padre

• Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

  Homer

  Men, Race, Earth

  "Ilíada". Poema épico de Homero, c. 750 a.C.

• Entre todos los hombres de la tierra, los bardos tienen una parte de honor y reverencia, porque la musa les ha enseñado canciones y ama la raza de los bardos.

  Homer

  Música, Canción, Hombres

• Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

  Homer

  Father, Believe, Moving

• Nada más débil nutre la tierra que el hombre, de todas las cosas que respiran y se mueven.

  Homer

  Moverse, Hombres, Respirar

  Homero (2013). "Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)", p.5156, Delphi Classics.

• Suena en la tierra mi sabiduría, y en lo alto del cielo mi fama.

  Homer

  Cielo, Sonido, Tierra

  Homero (1872). "La Ilíada ...", p.384

• Whoever among men who walk the Earth has seen these Mysteries is blessed, but whoever in uninitiated and has not received his share of the rite, he will not have the same lot as the others, once he is dead and dwells in the mould where the sun goes down.

  Homer

  Blessed, Men, Sun

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

  Homer

  Sky, Earth, Rage From The Iliad

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