“Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.”
Source: Electra
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Famous Euripides Quotes
Source: Electra
Source: Iphigenia in Aulis
Source: Electra
“Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.”
Source: Electra
Source: Electra
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”
Source: Electra
Source: Iphigenia in Aulis
“On, on! Run, dance, delirious, possessed!”
Source: The Bacchae and Other Plays
“But this is ruin! New waves breaking in To wreck us, ere we are righted from the old!”
Source: Medea
“Look at it steadily; come closer to the truth. I see-- O, gods, what horror! Oh, what misery!”
Source: The Bacchae and Other Plays
“There is strange tyranny in the god who sent Against your house this cruel punishment.”
Source: The Bacchae and Other Plays
“Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.”
Source: Electra
Source: Electra
Source: Electra
“You gave birth to your own death.”
Source: Electra
“We'll buy back our own harm with what is most dear to us.”
Source: Iphigenia in Aulis
“Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive”
Source: Medea
Source: Iphigenia in Aulis
Source: Electra
Source: Iphigenia in Aulis
“He loves power. A terrible love.”
Source: Iphigenia in Aulis
Source: Hecuba