Blessing Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any…

— Ambrose Bierce

“What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory… We are men only,…

— Madeline Miller

“Odysseus is the statesman of the Iliad, the man in the middle, keeping what balance he can among the parties. He shows himself at…

— Eva Brann

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

“What could you possibly write at Gates of Hades?” Cadmus asked. “Keep your spirits up.” Lycon sheathed the dagger he’d used to chisel the…

— Sulari Gentill

It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea…

— Barry S. Strauss

But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time…

— Anonymous

“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

Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of…

— Arthur C. Clarke

To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first…

— Arthur C. Clarke