Odysseus Quotes

• Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

  John Maynard Keynes

  President, Wiser

  'The Economic Consequences of the Peace' (1919) ch. 3 (on Woodrow Wilson)

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• Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

  Homer

  Pain, Way, Odyssey

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.48, Penguin

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• For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.

  Homer

  Dog, Home, Men

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1961). “The Odyssey”, Anchor Books

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• I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sheep, Often Is, Blood

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• Hay que separarse de la vida como Odiseo se separó de Nausicaa, bendiciéndola y no enamorándose de ella.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Blessing, Should

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.273, Modern Library

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• You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.

  Odysseas Elytis

  Depth, Study, Little Things

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• I'd rather be like Odysseus than someone who was handed everything.

  Mindy Kaling

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. 16 de octubre de 2014.

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• En estas arenas y en las hendiduras de las rocas, en las profundidades del mar, en el crujido de los pinos, espiarás huellas secretas y captarás voces lejanas de la celebración del regreso a casa. Esta tierra aún añora a Odiseo.

  Homer

  Home, Rocks, Sea

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• The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus.

  John Gardner

  Dream, Strong, Home

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• What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever created The Odyssey was incredibly hip to stuff that we think, in our post-modernist, post-structuralist era, we're uncovering for the first time; but we aren't.

  Daniel Mendelsohn

  Thinking, What If, Odyssey

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife, Penelope, a brilliant, resourceful woman who ends up in a terrible situation: in her husband's absence, she is being held hostage in her own home by men who claim to be courting her. She tries to make them leave, but because she's a woman they refuse, blaming their bad behavior on her desirability.

  Madeline Miller

  Husband, Home, Men

  Fuente: www.glamour.com

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• As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pride, Dedication, Land

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• I think that was E.T.'s central appeal, personally. E.T. is this metaphorical journey, this strange Odysseus from another world, who just wants to go home. Obviously, home must've been better!

  Federico Lenz

  Home, Journey, Thinking

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• To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man. We must contemplate the moment, now irrevocably lost in the mists of time, when the ancestor off all of us came crawling out of the sea.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Sea, Space

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• Le envió un viento cálido y suave, y el Señor Odiseo se sintió feliz mientras desplegaba sus velas para atrapar la brisa. Se sentó junto al remo de gobierno y utilizó su habilidad para dirigir la balsa.

  Homer

  Viento, mar, habilidades

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• SIRENA, s. Uno de varios prodigios musicales famosos por un vano intento de disuadir a Odiseo de una vida sobre las olas del océano. En sentido figurado, cualquier dama de espléndida promesa, propósito disimulado y actuación decepcionante.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Vida, Océano, Musical

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). "The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary", p.215, University of Georgia Press

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• I find that readers are very interested in how things are translated. I just turned in the first part of this father-son Odyssey, and there is a part when I digress and explain that the name Odysseus is related to the word for pain. Like "-odyne" in the word "anodyne," pain. It's the same, "-odyne" as in Odysseus. He's the man who both suffers endlessly, in trying to get home, but also inflicts a lot of suffering on everyone he visits.

  Daniel Mendelsohn

  Dolor, Hogar, Hombres

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows?" He smiles. "Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you.

  Madeline Miller

  Memories, Men, Hands

  Madeline Miller (2012). “The Song of Achilles”, p.347, A&C Black

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• Aunque los hombres de la masa olvidan los orígenes de su necesidad, siguen llevando perros lobo a los apartamentos de la ciudad, donde perro y hombre se sientan a meditar con melancólica incomodidad. La magia que resplandece un instante entre Argos y Odiseo es tanto el reconocimiento de la diversidad como la necesidad de afecto a través de las ilusiones de la forma. Es el grito de la naturaleza al hombre sin hogar, errante e insaciable: "No olvides a tus hermanos ni el bosque verde del que surgiste. Hacerlo es invitar al desastre".

  Loren Eiseley

  Perro, Hombres, Ciudades

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• It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Sports, Intelligent, Sea

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• Pero tú, Aquiles,/ no hay hombre en el mundo más dichoso que tú.../ Nunca lo ha habido ni lo habrá./ Antaño, cuando vivías, los argivos/ te honrábamos como a un dios, y ahora aquí abajo, veo/ que te enseñoreas de los muertos con todo tu poder./ Así que no te aflijas más por morir, gran Aquiles.' Tranquilicé al fantasma, pero estalló en protestas: "No me dirijas palabras de victoria sobre la muerte, brillante Odiseo. Por Dios, prefiero trabajar como un esclavo en la tierra para otro hombre... algún pobre campesino que se las arregla para sobrevivir, que gobernar aquí abajo sobre todos los muertos sin aliento".

  Homer

  Duelo, Ganar, Hombres

  Homero (2008). "Odisea, Homero", Spark Publishing Group

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• La mente homérica es ingenio, inteligencia práctica. No hay pensamiento profundo a lo Rodin, ni especulación matemática o filosófica. Odiseo piensa con las manos.

  Camille Paglia

  Filosófico, Pensamiento, Manos

  Camille Paglia (1990). "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson", Vintage

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• Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. For somewhere in the world today, still unconscious of his destiny, walks the boy who will be the first Odysseus of the Age of Space.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Future, Destiny, Boys

  Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “By Space Possessed”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• Todavía no existe una ética que trate la relación del hombre con la tierra y con los animales y plantas que crecen en ella. La tierra, como las esclavas de Odiseo, sigue siendo propiedad. La relación con la tierra sigue siendo estrictamente económica y conlleva privilegios, pero no obligaciones.

  Aldo Leopold

  Girl, Growing Up, Animal

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.182, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a hurry"

  Federico Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Order

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