#classics

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself—more birds than women flocking round his body! ↗

— Homer

#death #greece #grief #mourning #death

...nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose... ↗

— Mary Shelley

#education #education

You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face? ↗

— Homer

#family #greece #insult #family

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#humor #humor

She had come to that state where the horror of the universe and its smallness are both visible at the same time—the twilight of the double vision in which so many elderly people are involved. If this world is not to our taste, well, at all events, there is Heaven, Hell, Annihilation—one or other of those large things, that huge scenic background of stars, fires, blue or black air. All heroic endeavour, and all that is known as art, assumes that there is such a background, just as all practical endeavour, when the world is to our taste, assumes that the world is all. But in the twilight of the double vision, a spiritual muddledom is set up for which no high-sounding words can be found; we can neither act nor refrain from action, we can neither ignore nor respect Infinity. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#art

A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#devotional-classics #hard-times #inspirational-quotes #inspirational

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? ↗

— Jane Austen

#sports

Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#poetry #love

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. ↗

— Russell Banks

#american #art #classics #early #early age

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other. ↗

— Homer

#greece #love #passion #peace #faith