Best Greek Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (”

“That is — your friend?”

“Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·”

“neither for me honey nor the honey bee”

“Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -”

“gathering flowers so very delicate a girl”

“Κι μιὰ μέρα θέλω νὰ γράψουν στὸν τάφο μου: ἔζησε στὰ σύνορα”

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“Επιθυμίες”

“Fearful that they would be caught, the young lovers cast themselves into the sea with their stone, saying these words, "May we ever be united in love and hidden as long as this stone hides in deep waters.”

“...Originally everything about a Greek or Christian building meant something, and in reference to a higher order of things. This atmosphere of inexhaustible meaningfulness hung about the building like a magic veil. Beauty entered the system only secondarily, impairing the basic feeling of uncanny sublimity, of sanctification by magic or the gods' nearness. At the most, beauty tempered the”

“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.”

“She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.”

“if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like”

“Call no man happy until he is dead.”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”

“Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”