Best Odyssey Quotes

43 Odyssey quotes by 37 unique authors

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey… — Camille Paglia
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as… — Raymond Queneau
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of… — Hunter S. Thompson
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? — Bernhard Schlink
A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul. — Thomas Moore
I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd. — Allen Ginsberg
The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything. — Jon Krakauer
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,… — Homer
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since… — Andre Gide
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and… — Michael J. Massimino
I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it. — Lana Wachowski
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
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies. — Margaret Atwood
A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world… — Dwight Yoakam
It's black after light, An Odyssey of the end, A lord of chaos to be, searching my dreams of the lives in my vision It's… — Children Of Bodom
It is perhaps not surprising, amid the general leveling of individual aspirations in the growing megalopolis that it was the "Odyssey", not the "Iliad" which… — Cedric H Whitman
I'm as light as I can be. You got me feeling weightless. You take me on an odyssey. You got me feeling weightless. — Kerli

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