AESCHYLUS QUOTES V

Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)

Aeschylus quote

It would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: death, pain


Watchful are the Gods of all
Hands with slaughter stained. The black
Furies wait, and when a man
Has grown by luck, not justice, great,
With sudden overturn of chance
They wear him to a shade, and, cast
Down to perdition, who shall save him?

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: murder


Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: suffering, glory


Woe, woe for the doom that shall be--as in grasp of the foeman they fare!
For a woe and a weeping it is, if the maiden inviolate flower
Is plucked by the foe in his might, not culled in the bridal bower!

AESCHYLUS

The Seven Against Thebes


Long tarries destiny, but comes to those who pray.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Pourers

Tags: destiny, prayer


When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers

Tags: death, willpower


Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Kabeiroi

Tags: wealth


The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Toxotides

Tags: women, sex


Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: old age, youth


Thou needs must spit it out and make clean thy mouth.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, to come to me; of cureless ills thou art the one physician. Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Philoctetes

Tags: death, pain


But thou, like newly-yoked colt,
Champing the bit, dost fight against the rein
Fiercely; yet futile the device wherein
Madly thou trustest; for mere stubbornness
Avails the foolish-hearted less than nought.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound


Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: words


Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Ixion

Tags: death, work


No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.

AESCHYLUS

Libation Bearers


Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.

AESCHYLUS

The Seven Against Thebes

Tags: obedience, success


On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound


I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: hope


Ask the gods nothing excessive.

AESCHYLUS

The Suppliant Women

Tags: prayer, God


Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: memory, wisdom