Death Quotes by Homer

“Mistress; please: are you divine, or mortal?”

— Homer

Death submits to no one.

— Homer

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

— Homer

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

— Homer

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

— Homer

Most grievous of all deaths it is to die of hunger.

— Homer

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

— Homer

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.

— Homer

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

— Homer

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

— Homer

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

— Homer

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

— Homer

“Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above…

— Homer

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have…

— Homer

That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for…

— Homer

“But death is a thing that comes to all alike. Not even the gods can fend it away from a man they…

— Homer

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all…

— Homer

“As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.”

— Homer

“I would rather follow the plow as thrall to another man, one with no land allotted him and not much to live…

— Homer

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design…

— Homer

[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones…

— Homer

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held…

— Homer

I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all…

— Homer

“For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can…

— Homer

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most…

— Homer

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but…

— Homer

“L. 151. Chthizos, yesterday. But either the word must have a more extended signification than is usually given to it, or Homer…

— Homer

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for…

— Homer

Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And…

— Homer

A glorious death is his, who for his country falls.

— Homer

We're goin bowling. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths.

— Homer

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

— Homer

All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.

— Homer

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

— Homer

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

— Homer

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

— Homer

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

— Homer

We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.

— Homer

“Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is…

— Homer

“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...”

— Homer