Desirée Joan > Desirée's Quotes

“Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
― Aeschylus

“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

“Oh, the torment bred in the race,
the grinding scream of death
and the stroke that hits the vein,
the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,
the curse no man can bear.

But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.

Now hear, you blissful powers underground --
answer the call, send help.
Bless the children, give them triumph now.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies

“Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”
― Aeschylus

“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“To learn is to be young, however old.”
― Aeschylus

“There is no avoidance in delay.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“Call no man happy till he is dead.”
― Aeschylus

“I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

“Words are doctors for the diseased temper.”
― Aeschylus

“Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.”
― Aeschylus, Eumenides

“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”
― Aeschylus

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.”
― Aeschylus

“There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”
― Aeschylus

“Death is softer by far than tyranny.”
― Aeschylus

“He who learns must suffer.”
― Aeschylus

“[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.”
― Aeschylus

“And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.
”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“She looked just like a painting dying to speak.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“In visions of the night, like dropping rain,
Descend the many memories of pain”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“But the lust for power never dies- men cannot have enough.
No one will lift a hand to send it from his door, to give it warning, 'Power, never come again!”
― Aeschylus