Being Quote by Bettany Hughes

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

— Thomas Moore

“In this way, the Odyssey’s hero embodies one of its central themes, which is that the capacity to defer satisfaction and endure suffering is…

— Homer

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

— Raymond Queneau

The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret…

— Robert Dessaix

'The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire book is…

— Lawrence Osborne

Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for…

— Joseph Campbell

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.

— George Papandreou

There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“I reread the Odyssey at that time, which I had first read in school and remembered as a story of a homecoming.But it is…

— Bernhard Schlink

“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary…

— Joseph Campbell

Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them…

— Ramona Koval