Quotes from Euripides

We are not subject to our own wills, our own desires. But to the fates and the fortunes that the gods hand to us. The future is turned before our eyes into wrenching heartache, into ashes and to splinters. From today I know that truly hope is dead. I ask you again, you who watch, how can there ever be any ending than this? First silence. Then darkness.

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What's strange in that? Have you only just discovered That everyone loves himself more than his neighbor?

Sorrow is long when love has vanished underground.

You gave birth to your own death.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

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.

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.

Agaue was foaming at the mouth; her rolling eyes Were wild; she was not in her right mind, but possessed

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No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

If women didn't exist, human life would be rid of all its miseries.

Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time. Yes, and forethought: this too is bravery.

This is what destroys the fine cities and homes of mortals: words spoken too well.

And I do not fear to say that those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things Are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

I'd never want my muse to be a singer of nothing but disaster.

O Zeus! Why have you given us clear signs to tell True gold from counterfeit; but when we need to know Bad men from good, the flesh bears no revealing mark?

There is no justice in the world's censorious eyes. They will not wait to learn a man's true character; Though no wrong has been done them, one look - and they hate. - Medea

There liveth not in my life any more The hope that others have. Nor will I tell The lie to mine own heart, that aught is well Or shall be well…. Yet, O, to dream were sweet!

Look this way! Death is a debt all mortal men must pay; Aye, there is no man living who can say If life will last him yet a single day. On, to the dark, drives Fortune; and no force Can wrest her secret nor put back her course….

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

Be happy, beloved face of my great friend. For us that is impossible, but you can be-we dead lack any source of delight

LEADER. My King, thou needs must gird thee to the worst. Thou shalt not be the last, nor yet the first, To lose a noble wife. Be brave, and know To die is but a debt that all men owe.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop:             there is no wind that always blows a storm;             great good fortune comes to failure in the end.