“Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?”

“I've loved him forever, but he can never be mine.”

“There is a certain callousness in families like mine. They put up strong barriers so as not to see the misery in the world outside and I rebelled against it.”

“And you can tell Darroc that Ms. Lane is mine. If he wants her, he can bloody well come and get her”

“The slave who digs in the mine or labors at the oar can rejoice at the prospect of laying down his burden together with his life; but to the slave of guilt there arises no hope from death. On the contrary, he is obliged to look forward with constant terror to this most certain of all events, as the conclusion of all his hopes, and the commencement of his greatest miseries.”

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”

“Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.”

“Cabin Fifteen does that to everyone," Annabeth warned. "If you ask me, this place is even more dangerous than the Ares cabin. At least with Ares, you can learn where the land mines are."
"Land mines?”

“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belong to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”