Ellyn Yap

“The proud heart feels not terror nor turns to run and it is his own courage that kills him”
― Homer, The Iliad

“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?”
― Homer, The Iliad

“For of all creatures that breathe and creep about on the earth, there is none so miserable as man.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.”
― Homer, The Iliad