“Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
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“Words that weep and tears that speak.”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
The Prophet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn", Thomas Gray, Progress of Poesy, iii. 3, 4.
“Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 30.
“The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.”
Kohta Hirano (1973) Japanese manga artist
Source: Hellsing, Vol. 01
“I, of set will, speak words the wise may learn,
To others, nought remember nor discern.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 38–39 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“My name, far more than it names me, reminds me of my name.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Mi nombre, más que llamarme, me recuerda mi nombre.
Voces (1943)
“[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.”
Georges Bernanos book Monsieur Ouine
Source: Monsieur Ouine, 1943, p.244
Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786) king of Prussia
This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 215 from Frederick to Voltaire (1776-03-19)