“He didn’t realize his reflection was only an image and fell in love with it.” Ovid – The Metamorphoses: Book 3
“Also deadly Nyx bore Nemesis an affliction to mortals subject to death.”
Hesiod, Theogony, 223
“Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such a thing never happened, it is still conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never.”
Franz Kafka
“…the eyes observe with silent, eternal light.”
Friedrich Hölderlin
“While he struggled, she called out to the gods that they should never part. Her wish was granted, and their bodies blended into one form, a creature of both sexes.“
Ovid – The Metamorphoses: Book 4