Best Euripides Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.”

Tears Embrace Dead Doomed Grave Greek Tragedy Electra Euripides Cry For Me Entreaty

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“No, child, you’re wrong. They’re not the same. Life means hope, death is nothing at all.”

Inspirational Quotes Tragedy Hope Quotes Euripides

Book:The Trojan women

Source: The Trojan women

“I wish you joy. To spend life's fleeting days mid joy that never meets an evil hour is to be blessed beyond compare.”

Life Joy Blessed Life Is Short Rare Greek Tragedy Electra Euripides

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny is the cruelest thing of all.”

Suffering Destiny Fate Foresight Euripides Iphigenia At Aulis

Book:Iphigenia in Aulis

Source: Iphigenia in Aulis

“Θνητῶν δέ μωρός ὅστις εὖ πράσσειν δοκῶν βέβαια χαίρει· τοῖς τρόποις γάρ αἱ τύχαι, ἔμπληκτος ὡς ἄνθρωπος, ἄλλοτ' ἄλλοσε πηδῶσι, κουδείς αὐτός εὐτυχεῖ ποτέ.”

Happiness Fate Luck Euripides The Trojan Women ευρυπίδης

Author:Euripides, Ευρυπίδης

“Euripides, however, has drawn Fate down from the region of the infinite; and with him inevitable necessity not unfrequently degenerates into the caprice of chance. Accordingly, he can no longer apply it to its proper purpose, namely, by contrast with it, to heighten the moral liberty of man. How few of his pieces turn upon a steadfast resistance to the decrees of fate, or an equally heroic submission to them! His characters generally suffer because they must, and not because they will.”

Fate Tragedy Euripides

Book:Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

Source: Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

“AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate! CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.”

Fate Tragedy Trapped Relentless Greek Tragedy Euripides Agamemnon Inescapable Iphigenia At Aulis Clytemnestra

Book:Iphigenia in Aulis

Source: Iphigenia in Aulis

“Apollo, Apollo—but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are bound to acquiesce. And you must do now as Fate and Zeus ordain.”

Fate Apollo Zeus Greek Gods Greek Tragedy Oracle Electra Euripides

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.”

Suffering Blame Greek Tragedy Electra Euripides Self Blame Recriminations

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“ORESTES: Never shall I see you again. ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes. ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk with you ever. ELECTRA: O my homeland, goodbye. Goodbye to you, women of home. ORESTES: Most loyal of sisters, do you leave now? ELECTRA: I leave with tears blurring all that I see.”

Sad Dialogue Goodbye Farewell Exile Parting Greek Tragedy Electra Euripides Orestes

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”

Sorrow Sad Punishment Refugee Displacement Greek Tragedy Electra Banishment Euripides Banished

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by the clear springs where the nymphs rise, and the rich pastures starred with roses and hyacinths for the goddesses to gather.”

Nature Description Flowers Greek Mythology Goddesses Greek Tragedy Nymphs Idyllic Euripides Iphigenia At Aulis

Book:Iphigenia in Aulis

Source: Iphigenia in Aulis

“Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life.”

Morality Tragedy Greek Mythology Socrates Euripides The Death Of Tragedy

Book:Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

Source: Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

“Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.”

Death Blood Revenge Vengeance Greek Tragedy Electra Euripides An Eye For An Eye The Ultimate Price

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful deeds on your brother against his will.”

Regret Hindsight Greek Tragedy Electra Euripides Changeable

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless future you've doled out.”

Regret Consequences Apollo Lyrical Descriptive Greek Tragedy Electra Euripides

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“You gave birth to your own death.”

Death Fate Birth Greek Tragedy Electra Euripides Matricide

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“We'll buy back our own harm with what is most dear to us.”

Sacrifice Tragedy Contradictory Greek Tragedy Euripides Iphigenia At Aulis

Book:Iphigenia in Aulis

Source: Iphigenia in Aulis

“No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.”

Life Happiness Fate Bitterness Good Fortune Greek Tragedy Euripides Iphigenia At Aulis

Book:Iphigenia in Aulis

Source: Iphigenia in Aulis

“Bear witness for one who is loved and not loved: we cast the cloak gently around her, an end of great woe for our house.”

Contradictory End Loved Unloved Greek Tragedy Electra Euripides Bear Witness Put To Rest

Book:Electra

Source: Electra

“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice behind them, and there is no law but lawlessness, and none join in fear of the gods?”

Corruption Lawlessness Greek Gods Greek Tragedy Euripides Iphigenia At Aulis

Book:Iphigenia in Aulis

Source: Iphigenia in Aulis

“Any pleasure I took in life I now renounce; it’s death I want.”

Tragedy Medea Euripides Greek Plays

Author:Euripides

“He loves power. A terrible love.”

Power Greek Tragedy Power Hungry Euripides Iphigenia At Aulis

Book:Iphigenia in Aulis

Source: Iphigenia in Aulis

“The tragic style of Aeschylus (I use the word "style" in the sense it receives in sculpture, and not in the exclusive signification of the manner of writing,) is grand, severe, and not unfrequently hard: that of Sophocles is marked by the most finished symmetry and harmonious gracefulness: that of Euripides is soft and luxuriant; overflowing in his easy copiousness, he often sacrifices the general effect to brilliant passages. The analogies which the undisturbed development of the fine arts among the Greeks everywhere furnishes, will enable us, throughout to compare the epochs of tragic art with those of sculpture. Aeschylus is the Phidias of Tragedy, Sophocles her Polycletus, and Euripides her Lysippus. Phidias formed sublime images of the gods, but lent them an extrinsic magnificence of material, and surrounded their majestic repose with images of the most violent struggles in strong relief. Polycletus carried his art to perfection of proportion, and hence one of his statues was called the Standard of Beauty. Lysippus distinguished himself by the fire of his works; but in his time Sculpture had deviated from its original destination, and was much more desirous of expressing the charm of motion and life than of adhering to ideality of form.”

Sculpture Sophocles Euripides Styles Aeschylus Phidias Lysippos Polykleitos

Book:Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

Source: Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

“I will not stop singing the Muses who set me dancing.”

Love Life Inspiration Happiness Inspirational Quotes Joy Poetry Work Creativity Creation Poet Tragedy Dancing Writer Sing Muses Euripides

Book:Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Source: Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.”

Speak Sleep Atheism Slave Challenge Freethought Infidel Euripides

Author:Luther Burbank