Eyes Quote by Franz Kafka

“But when Odysseus rose, that man of many devices, fixing his down-cast eyes on the ground he stood: nor his scepter swayed, either this…

— Homer

“Odysseus and his soldiers to certain destruction. Odysseus”

— Julie Garwood

“Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveller, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and in return…

— Madeline Miller

As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind…

— Salman Rushdie

“Odysseus had twenty years to shed his battle skin. My grandfather left the battlefield in France and rode home in a ship that crawled…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of…

— Homer

“His chest expanded with a rising sense of pride for the young woman who had gone unappreciated by her own people. The Oclanders would…

— Vivienne Savage

“For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never…

— Richard Adams

“And then there are the Odysseans. They form the middle ground between Dionysians and Apollonians. They tend to fluctuate between action and despair, between…

— Donald Bain

“And others came... Desires and Adorations, Winged Persuasions and veil'd Destinies, Splendours, and Glooms, and glimmering Incarnations Of hopes and fears, and twilight Phantasies;…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“O blindness of the great! They go their way like gods, Great over bent backs, Sure of hired fists, Trusting in the power Which…

— Bertolt Brecht

“Afterwards the greedy Howeitat saw more oryx in the distance and went after the beasts, who foolishly ran a little; then stood still and…

— T.E. Lawrence