Greek Mythology Aesthetic Quotes

..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton ~ Edith Hamilton

In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik

I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new! ~ Rick Riordan

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves. ~ Plato

That is - your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved. ~ Madeline Miller

Plan harm for another and harm yourself most, The evil we hatch always comes home to roost. ~ Hesiod

In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world. ~ Hyman Rickover

Hero," said Machaon to his sister who was still muttering to her gods. "Please stop. Surely the gods would have heard you by now … let's try not to annoy them. ~ Sulari Gentill

Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology. ~ Thomm Quackenbush

Let's laugh and love until the world ends. ~ Lisa Kessler

You're the shield, and I'm the sword. ~ Amanda Bouchet

And you, Persephone... You were foretold, too. I never wanted anything-" her mouth moved softly, gently over my skin "-until I wanted you. ~ Sarah Diemer

Even after a lifetime of being near oracles, I found their predictions annoyingly vague. ~ Tammie Painter

Nosoi?" Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. "You know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end."
"You haven't killed me yet," I noted.
"Don't tempt me. ~ Rick Riordan

Creation at this time, peopled as it was by primal deities whose whole energy and purpose seems to have been directed towards reproduction, was endowed with an astonishing fertility. The soil was blessed with such a fecund richness that one could almost believe that if you planted a pencil it would burst into flower. ~ Stephen Fry

Anekico ler aracnia"
~Victory to the spider
"Ki mi ypomonitikosi teleson semerie"
~And today my patience ends ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

She wore an A-line bridal gown with a V-shaped neckline while Apollo playing Bach's Air on the G string. ~ Tai

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology ~ Barack Obama

Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.
You could not believe I was more than your echo. ~ Margaret Atwood

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had. ~ Eric Bana

Simple. Atlantis can't be found." He scoffed at her. " You're the second person to tell me that in less than an hour. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see. ~ Madeline Miller

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? ~ Aeschylus

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word ... ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Greeks were more preoccupied with, where these ousted gods resided. That is: The fallen son's of God could go where humans were, but humans could not go where they were. According to Greek mythology, Tartarus was an imposed condition for bad gods
not bad humans. (page 10) ~ Michael Ben Zehabe

You know, Mac,"Cadmus said still looking out the window. "We may have to work on the way we tell our story …apparently it's not amusing enough."

"I'll try to include a joke between 'he bled to death'and 'the city burned'."Machaon responded tersely. ~ Sulari Gentill

Maybe that's why you demonised them,
turned them into monsters,

because you think monsters are easier
to understand than women who say no to you. ~ Nikita Gill

We'd read about sirens in English this fall; Greek mythology bullshit about women so beautiful, their voices so enchanting, that men did anything for them. Turned out that mythology crap was real because every time I saw her, I lost my mind. ~ Katie McGarry

Time, which sees all things, has found you out. ~ Sophocles

All limits are self imposed. ~ Icarus

Psychoanalysis and Greek mythology are two sides of the same medallion. To put it differently: without classical mythology, there would be no psychoanalysis. If that seems like too bold a statement, this chapter aims to show that it is not. It will look at the dynamic relationship forged between psychoanalysis and classical myth, and the impacts, positive and negative, that each has made upon the other.
There are numerous psychoanalytic theorists, but Freud necessarily takes centre stage. Like many in 19th-century Germany, Freud was passionate about ancient
Greece and its myths. He was both an analyst of the psyche, or mind (using Greek myth) and of Greek myth (using the psyche). As a result, he initiated a radical new method of enquiry, psychoanalysis, and wrote a momentous chapter in the history of classical mythology. ~ Helen Morales

I huff. Sort of. "Well, would Your Logicalness care to take me to breakfast and tell me about his plans?"
… "Would your Nakedness care to get dressed first?" he asks. ~ Amanda Bouchet

You're a good man, Hunter. ~ Lisa Kessler

You make me want to be. ~ Lisa Kessler

Inspiration before intercourse. ~ Lisa Kessler

I'm the king of bad ideas. ~ Lisa Kessler

Rainbows, very macho -Leo ~ Rick Riordan

If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea. ~ Greek Proverb

How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken ~ Beverley Cross

The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman poet matched Homer and harmonized Greek civilization with Roman ideals ~ John Mark Reynolds

I love you more than too much. ~ Nely Cab

My lone desire stands, looking like beauty on a cloud, ripe for my picking, ready for me to ravish and pleasure. Waiting for me to tempt and tease. Satisfy and gratify. ~ A.R. Von

It was hope that brought me love. ~ Nely Cab

Fight for faith, and hope will be born. ~ Nely Cab

I love you like a man insane. ~ Amanda Bouchet

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die. ~ Rick Riordan

For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite. ~ Stephen Fry

Hey, Cooper, it's Lia from the geriatric-poker dating service. ~ Lisa Kessler

You make the rarest canvas, love ~ Madeline Miller

Love her enough to let her live. ~ Nely Cab

You've already given me better than I've ever had. ~ Lisa Kessler

Trust my folly then, since it is best
for a man truly wise to be thought a fool. ~ Aeschylus

I can't reason when I'm around you. ~ Nely Cab

If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by the clear springs where the nymphs rise, and the rich pastures starred with roses and hyacinths for the goddesses to gather. ~ Euripides

You are young and young your rule and you think that the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. ~ Aeschylus

I will not sentence myself to such a living death. ~ Madeline Miller

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion. ~ Joseph Campbell

Man..." He blew out an exasperated breath. "Do you push everyone away this hard, or is it just me? ~ Lisa Kessler

I shortened my name to Cat for a reason – as in Cataclysm. ~ Amanda Bouchet

It is probably best for us not to concentrate in too literal a fashion on the temporal structure of myth. ~ Stephen Fry

Griffin's eyes capture mine. He holds my face in his hands. "You. Belong. With. Me. ~ Amanda Bouchet

Every hero is scared. That-s what being brave is about - confronting fear. ~ Nely Cab

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue. ~ Tom Robbins

Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies.

If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life. ~ John N. Gray

So, Ariadne was the babe with the ball of twine and the plan. ~ Claire Cross

Yield, and I'll eat your little pussy... first. ~ Setta Jay

In the karmic worldview, you are queer because of karma, and it may be a boon or curse. In the one-life worldview, you are queer because you choose to be so, to express your individuality or to defy authority (Greek mythology) or God/Devil wills it so (biblical mythology). ~ Devdutt Pattanaik

We were friends before." Sort of. We never tried to kill each other. ~ Amanda Bouchet

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn ~ Aeschylus

I think I *was* the lightning. ~ Amy Leigh Strickland

Protect the daughters of Zeus." Fire flickered in Apollo's eyes. "Kronos is among you. ~ Lisa Kessler

I am Cassandra - she who, without asking,
understood it all and still came to her fate,
I, Cassandra, full of visions,
who sees her own death without turning away,
and hears in the night the day that follows. ~ Gabriela Mistral

The truce between the gods held only because Titans and Olympians each kept to their sphere. ~ Madeline Miller

I'm very at home working with mythology. ~ Tori Amos

Be as you wish to seem. ~ Socrates

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology. ~ Joseph Campbell

He had the body of a god and a Southern drawl that made her toes curl. ~ Lisa Kessler

The dank night is sweeping down from the sky
and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep. ~ Virgil

He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess. ~ Sparky Anderson

I dragged on my ruined life in darkness and grief, wrathful in my heart... ~ Virgil

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength. ~ Ovid

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion. ~ Lord Byron

Fought their duels on Greek territory, conscripted Greek men, requisitioned Greek crops and gold, levied twenty years' taxes in two, and left the cities destitute. ~ Will Durant

It grew louder, siren crying from her the depth of very voice; Sweet melodies to
guide me to the underworld. ~ Chika Onyenezi

Stay with me?" His fingers wound into my hair, and his arm tightened around me. "Always. ~ Amalia Carosella

In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

You're a strong guy."
He shot her a crooked grin. "You inspire me. ~ Lisa Kessler

We all wrap ourselves in the mythology we want other people to see us in. ~ Neil M. Hanson

The gods may have spoken, but Nature only bends to a goddess. ~ Grace Curley

Athena's jealousy made a monster of fair Medusa.
I often wonder what beauty my own demons have destroyed. ~ Nichole McElhaney

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand ... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature. ~ G.H. Hardy

He pressed his lips to her shoulder, whispering along her soft skin, "I'm right where I want to be. ~ Lisa Kessler

So…we'll start by boasting, will we? Just like old times! Very well, demigod. ~ Rick Riordan

I sort of fell."
"Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet? ~ Rick Riordan

It's one of my inventions-a shampoo," Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that. ~ Joan Holub

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic. ~ Matthew Healy

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth
penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ~ Joseph Campbell

Nd why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea
and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl ... ~ Virgil

In Greek mythology, Gods divide a human soil into two and send them world apart, and thus, each human is doomed to spend eternity looking for his/her other half ~ Daniel Gottlieb

Do not worry about your contradictions - Persephone is both floral maiden and queen of death. You, too, can be both. ~ Nichole McElhaney