Classic literature Quote by Virgil

“I watched him get up, and out there in the rain and the murk and the sadness, he wasn’t mere mortal, he was Aeneas,…

— Ellie Fox

“Duty bound, Aeneas, though he struggled with desire to calm and comfort her in all her pain, to speak to her and turn her…

— Publius Vergilius Maro

“So Aeneas pleaded, his face streaming tears. Three times he tried to fling his arms around his neck, three times he embraced--nothing...the phantom sifting…

— Virgil

“This vexed Theseus, and determining not to hold aloof, but to share the fortunes of the people, he came forward and offered himself without…

— Plutarch

“In later days he [Olórin] dearly loved the Children of Eru, and took pity on their sorrows. Those who hearkened to him arose from…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“I am Aeneas, duty-bound, and known Above high air of heaven by my fame. -AM #CymruAMbyth”

— Aeneas Middleton

“Hector had no virtue?” “Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one.” “We all do,” Aeneas remarked.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“He utterly honored his sorrow, gave in to it with such deep and boundless weeping that it seemed as I stood there he was…

— Kathleen Collins

“The words sounded like a mournful incantation.”

— Dan Simmons

“All night he either traversed his apartment with an agitation equal to that, which anxiety had so lately inflicted, or composed and destroyed letters…

— Ann Radcliffe

“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his life, and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered…

— Plutarch