Apollo Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions, with his…

— Marcel Proust

“Sometimes he hoped that she would die, painlessly, in some accident, she who was out of doors in the streets, crossing busy thoroughfares, from…

— Marcel Proust

“This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is for ordinary…

— Arthur Golden

The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang…

— Orlando Gibbons

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her…

— Phineas Fletcher

“When you’ve tired of me,” she said softly, precisely, “Apollo will still be my brother. Will still be there for me.” “I’ll never tire…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“Apollo, Apollo—but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are bound to…

— Euripides

“Apollo felt as if he glowed with grief, poisoned with mourning instead of radiation.”

— Victor LaValle

“They are dying, the old oracles sent to Laius, now our masters strike them off the rolls. Nowhere Apollo's golden glory now -- the…

— Sophocles

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

— Henry Miller

“Apollo was still a no-show and the cabin out in the middle of nowhere had become a god-free zone. A good thing, but I…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson