Elisabeth > Elisabeth's Quotes

“They stopped next at a bookstore. "Oh, what a delicious smell of new books!" said Ellen, as they entered. "Mamma, if it wasn't for one thing, I should say I never was so happy in my life.”
― Susan Warner

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“So many Greeks and Trojans on that day lay face-down in the dust beside each other.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“The worst fears of every hero will come true. All their labor will be for nothing, their names lost, their bodies left as carrion, and the landscape of the plain between the two rivers, which seems so irreparably marked by the struggles of the characters, will revert back to its”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Achilles groaned and answered, "Mother, Olympian Jove has indeed vouchsafed me the fulfilment of my prayer, but what boots it to me, seeing that my dear comrade Patroclus has fallen- he whom I valued more than all others, and loved as dearly as my own life? I have lost him; aye, and Hector when he had killed him stripped the wondrous armour, so glorious to behold, which the gods gave to Peleus when they laid you in the couch of a mortal man. Would that you were still dwelling among the immortal sea-nymphs, and that Peleus had taken to himself some mortal bride. For now you shall have grief infinite by reason of the death of that son whom you can never welcome home- nay, I will not live nor go about among mankind unless Hector fall by my spear, and thus pay me for having slain Patroclus son of Menoetius.”
― Homer, The Iliad of Homer

“Command thy vassals, but command not me.”
― Homer, The Iliad of Homer

“The young fool might have known his prayers were doomed to fail. Achilles was not kind or tender-hearted, but a man of fierce passions”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again”
― Homer, The Iliad

“For of all creatures that breathe and creep about on the earth, there is none so miserable as man.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“No time for speeches now, it’s time to fight.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin