Elytis Odysseas Quotes & Sayings

Fantastic truths perish slower ... Sappho's moon will survive the moon of Armstrong. Different computations are necessary. — Odysseas Elytis

The purpose that you were created Man is exactly this: to prove, you too, with your life and with your work that everything can and should be done without any purpose. To be accomplished as the entire creation is accomplished. — Odysseas Elytis

We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong ... So what we humans birth might surpass without oppressing us. — Odysseas Elytis

Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves. — Edward Kennedy

When I think of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them. — Jason Reitman

Bliss is not subtractbale. — Odysseas Elytis

A real hero doesn't expect to be thanked or even recognized. — Tom Collins

Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow. — Olivier Martinez

But all doors used regularly are doors to the afterlife. — Margaret Atwood

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business. — Ja Rule

John Imig, Damon O'Neil and Jason Parker of Swork Coffee, for the life-sustaining elixir, and for allowing me to rest, type and weep for hours into months into years. — Cynthia Bond

There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being. — Gautama Buddha

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her. — Odysseas Elytis

Never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty. — Edna O'Brien