Author: Heraclitus
Cited by
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz (1)
- IN: Disturbances in the Field (1983) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The name of the bow is life, but its work is death.
FROM: DK B48, (1925), Fragment, Greece
- Ted Hughes (1)
- IN: Gaudete (1977) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: If it were not Hades, the god of the dead and the underworld, for whom these obscene songs are sung and festivals are made, it would be a shocking thing, but Hades and Dionysos are one.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- J.M. Coetzee (1)
- IN: The Life and Times of Michael K. (1983) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: War is the father of all and king of all.
Some he shows as gods, others as men.
Some he makes slaves, and others free.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
- Ben Okri (1)
- IN: Wild (2012) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: One thunderbolt strikes root through everything.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- Amit Chaudhuri (1)
- IN: The Immortals (2009) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: The mortals become immortals; the immortals become mortals.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ancient Greece
- Monica Ali (1)
- IN: Brick Lane (2003) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: A man's character is his fate.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- Amanda Hodgkinson (1)
- IN: Spilt Milk (2014) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: We step and do not step into the same river, we are and we are not.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- Rawi Hage (1)
- IN: De Niro's Game (2006) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: How, from a fire that never sinks or sets, would you escape?
FROM: Fragments, (2001), Book, Greece
- Howard Norman (1)
- IN: My Darling Detective (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Things keep their secrets.
FROM: Fragments, (2001), Book, Greece
- Jung Yun (1)
- IN: Shelter (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: No man steps in the same river twice,
for it is not the same river,
and he is not the same man.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- Ridley Pearson (1)
- IN: Beyond Recognition (1997) Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
EPIGRAPH: The world, an entity out of everything, was created by neither gods nor men, but was, is, and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and regularly becoming extinguished.
FROM: The Cosmic Fragments, no. 20, (1954), Book, Greece
- Kristopher Dukes (1)
- IN: The Sworn Virgin (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: You could not step twice into the same river, for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- Mark Hodder (1)
- IN: The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Character is destiny.
FROM: Fragments, (2001), Book, Greece
- Christopher Bollen (1)
- IN: The Destroyers (2017) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Time is a game played beautifully by children.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- Lydia Kwa (1)
- IN: Oracle Bone (2017) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Singaporean
EPIGRAPH: To live is to die, to be awake is to
sleep, to be young is to be old, for
the one flows into the other, and the
process is capable of being reversed.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- Tom Perrotta (1)
- IN: Mrs Fletcher (2017) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: “The way up and the way down is one and the same.”
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- James Bradley (1)
- IN: Glade (2015) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Everything flows and nothing abides
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- Tim Powers (1)
- IN: The Anubis Gates (1983) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: No man can step into the same river twice,
for the second time it's not the same river,
and he's not the same man.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
- Marc Cameron (1)
- IN: National Security (2011) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: One of every hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there.
Eighty are just targets.
Nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have
them, for they make the battle.
Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.
FROM: NULL, (-500), NULL, Greece
- Ann Turner (1)
- IN: The Lost Swimmer (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
FROM: NULL, (-475), NULL, Greece