Aeschylus Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Call no man happy till he is dead.

  Aeschylus

  Happiness, Death, Men

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

• But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

  Aeschylus

  Death, Men, Blood

• Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

  Aeschylus

  Death, Pain, Dying

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.232

• Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

  Aeschylus

  Death, Desire, Doe

• For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

  Aeschylus

  Death, House, Path

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.389, Delphi Classics

• A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

  Aeschylus

  Death, Home, Men

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.414, Delphi Classics

• Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

  Aeschylus

  Death, Hate, Men

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.412, Delphi Classics

• The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

  Aeschylus

  Death, War, Fields

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.92, University of Chicago Press

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