AESCHYLUS QUOTES V

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

Aeschylus quote

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


Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: wealth, destiny


The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


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


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

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: suffering, glory


For wide, ah! wide is the woe when the foeman has mounted the wall;
There is havoc and terror and flame, and the dark smoke broods over all,
And wild is the war-god's breath, as in frenzy of conquest he springs,
And pollutes with the blast of his lips the glory of holiest things!

AESCHYLUS

The Seven Against Thebes

Tags: war


Some are lapped in night, where all things are undone.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers

Tags: night


Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: learning


God ever works with those that work with will.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Telephos

Tags: death


Not for laggards doth a contest wait.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Glaukos Potnieus


Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides

Tags: justice


Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Ixion

Tags: death, work


Ask the gods nothing excessive.

AESCHYLUS

The Suppliant Women

Tags: prayer, God


Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: night, sin


Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: words


Chanting aloud in realms below
The dead are wroth;
Against their slayers yet their ire doth glow.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers


Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: joy


The popular voice has much potency.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: popularity


Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: memory, wisdom