74 Rage From The Iliad Quotes

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Famous Rage From The Iliad Quotes

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. — Homer

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love. — Euripides

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. — Horace

Anger is short madness — Horace

Anger is a brief lunacy. — Horace

Anger is a momentary madness. — Horace

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. — James Baldwin

Anger begins with madness, but ends in regret. — Arabic Proverbs

Great anger is more destructive than the sword. — Indian Proverbs

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion. — Plutarch

Raging Bull Quotes

You punch like you take it up the ass. — Jake LaMotta

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse! — William Shakespeare

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro. — Rene Russo

Rage from the iliad quote People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

I grew up watching 'Raging Bull. — Vincent Cassel

To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw. — Louis C. K.

I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man. — Paddy Considine

I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films. — Holt McCallany

Road Rage Quotes

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional. — Robert Breault

I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine. — Katie Holmes

In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way. — Neal A. Maxwell

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage. — Aaron Paul

Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage. — Rahul Dravid

I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr! — Kajol

OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they? — David Hockney

My dad invented road rage. He wasn't the first guy to get mad in the car, but he was first guy to get mad enough to make the paper. — Christopher Titus

Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune system. Cut the stress-more yoga, less road rage-and you'll cut your cortisol production. — Daniel Gilbert

This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage. — Carl Honore

Blind Rage Quotes

The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral. — Richey Edwards

I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage. — Chino XL

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead? — Dalton Trumbo

What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel — Francine Prose

Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black. — Salman Rushdie

Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught. — Alexandre Dumas

Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea. — Stephen R. Lawhead

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd told everyone you hated them and not to come after you, where exactly did you go? — Cassandra Clare

I don't hate anyone. I simply block them out using hellish visions in a blind white rage. But if I see them out I'm pleasant. — Dane Cook

I think one of the things I always loved about the comics was this idea that this character, when he goes berserk, that white, blind rage makes him incredibly powerful, but it's also a great flaw. It's almost like he loses consciousness of what he's doing. During that he can do great damage. — Hugh Jackman

Fate In The Iliad Quotes

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter. — Homer

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. — Homer

There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. — Homer

Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms. — Homer

Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes! — Homer

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. — Herodotus

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on — Homer

His descent was like nightfall. — Homer

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. — Homer

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. — Homer

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More Rage From The Iliad Quotes

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born. — Stefan Zweig

Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth. — Homer

A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth. — Homer

The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may 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. — Brad Pitt

Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade. — Homer

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny. — Homer

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth. — Homer

But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me. — Homer

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born. — Homer

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. — Homer

Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away. — Homer

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born. — Homer

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius — Homer

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable — Homer

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness? — Homer

All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them. — Homer

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