Leana Moore > Leana's Quotes

“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”
― Euripides

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Euripides

“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
― Euripides

“Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour”
― Euripides, Medea

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
― Euripides

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”
― Euripides, The Phoenician Women

“Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
― Euripides

“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”
― Euripides

“The wisest men follow their own direction.”
― Euripides

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”
― Euripides

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
― Euripides

“Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive”
― Euripides, Medea

“Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”
― Euripides

“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”
― Euripides

“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. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.”
― Euripides

“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”
― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

“I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.”
― Euripides, Medea

“I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.”
― Euripides, Medea

“For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.”
― Euripides, Medea

“He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is laughter, and music in flutes.
He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep!
When his blood bursts from the grape
and flows across tables laid in his honor
to fuse with our blood,
he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows
of ivy-cool sleep.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.”
― Euripides

“Young man,
two are the forces most precious to mankind.
The first is Demeter, the Goddess.
She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her --
and she sustains humanity with solid food.
Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin,
bringing the counterpart to bread: wine
and the blessings of life's flowing juices.
His blood, the blood of the grape,
lightens the burden of our mortal misery.
Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out
to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.”
― Euripedes

“death is the only water to wash away this dirt”
― Euripides, Medea

“Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“God helps him who strives hard.”
― Euripides

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
― Euripides