The Aeneid Quotes

“Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,
consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...]
His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling--
no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Death's brother, sleep.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“the dank night is sweeping down from the sky
and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.”
― Virgil

“But if my forces are not enough, I am hardly the one to relent, I’ll plead for the help I need, wherever it may be - if I cannot sway the heavens, I’ll wake the powers of hell!”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“I dragged on my ruined life in darkness and grief, wrathful in my heart...”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Then, like ravening wolves in a black mist, when the belly's lawless rage has driven them blindly forth, and their whelps at home await them with thirsty jaws, through swords, through foes we pass to certain death, and hold our way to the city's heart; black night hovers around with sheltering shade.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“A fickle and changeful thing is woman ever”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Though far away, I will chase you with murky brands and, when chill death has severed soul and body, everywhere my shade shall haunt you.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“To what crime do you not drive the hearts of men, accursed hunger for gold?”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Arma Virumque Cano (I sing of arms and of man) -The Aeneid”
― Aeneas Middleton