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Quotes About Life

Iphigenia. A tripping name, the sound of goat hooves on rock, quick, lively, lovely.
~ Madeline Miller
This, and this and this and this.
~ Madeline Miller
Phoenix sends a man out, a diver, to look for her body, but he does not find it. Maybe her gods are kinder than ours, and she will find rest. I would give my life again to make it so.
~ Madeline Miller
His skin is familiar as my own beneath my fingers. I listen to his breath, warm upon the night air, and somehow I am comforted. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.
~ Madeline Miller
But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation he was to me.
~ Madeline Miller
Envious death would drink his blood and grow young again
~ Madeline Miller
Había contemplado la muerte en pinturas y en los tapices, y también en las figuras negras de las hidrias, pero jamás había visto la vibración del estertor, el ahogo, la desesperación. El olor a sangre.
~ Madeline Miller
You have eked out ten more years of life, and I am glad for you. But the rest of us -" His mouth twists. "The rest of us are forced to wait for your leisure. You are holding us here, Achilles.
~ Madeline Miller
But in a solitary life, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.
~ Madeline Miller
It will be all right. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.
~ Madeline Miller
We are all made of memories
~ Madeline Miller
Estoy hecho de recuerdos I am made of memories
~ Madeline Miller
But then there are those who wear their destinies like nooses, whose lives run straight as planks, however they try to twist it.
~ Madeline Miller
C'est la folie humaine que je trouve amusante.
~ Madeline Miller
Sevmemi? olanlar, hayatlar? ac? ve deh?etle geçmi? olanlar içinse insan?n içip unutabilece?i kara nehir Lethe vard?. Bir parça teselli.
~ Madeline Miller
But how is there glory in taking a life? We die so easily.
~ Madeline Miller
Un homme heureux est trop occupé à vivre sa vie. Il croit qu'il ne doit des comptes à personne.
~ Madeline Miller
Héctor debía vivir, porque su vida, pensé mientras retrocedía a gatas sobre la hierba, era el hito final antes de que corriera la sangre del mismísimo Aquiles.
~ Madeline Miller
No logré darle la divinidad —dice Tetis con voz quebrada y llena de pesar. —Pero le diste la vida.
~ Madeline Miller
He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.
~ Madeline Miller
Hayat?m çamurdan ve derinlikten olu?uyordu ama ben o karanl?k sular?n bir parças? de?ildim. O sular?n içindeki bir varl?kt?m
~ Madeline Miller
This and this and this
~ Madeline Miller
this is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. this is what it means to be alive. (circle 385)
~ Madeline Miller
He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth, and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.
~ Madeline Miller