O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly. (Callimachus)

O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.

Callimachus
Add to your website

Related topics

darkness great lie pluto under

Related quotes

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. View quote
Edmund Burke
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pelé. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. View quote
Pelé
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. View quote
Willa Cather
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. View quote
Henry Fielding