Aeschylus Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

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  He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

  Aeschylus

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

  Aeschylus

  Missing You, Pain, Memories

• Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

  Aeschylus

  Wall, Pain, Suffering

  Aeschylus (1961). “Prometheus Bound. The Suppliants. Seven Against Thebes. The Persians”, Penguin Classics

• There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Rowing, Advantage

  Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

• The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

  Aeschylus

  Truth, Pain, Suffering

• 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

  Pain, Memories, Heart

  Aeschylus (2007). “The Oresteia”, p.13, RicherResourcesPublications

• 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

• O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

  Aeschylus

  Art, Pain, Physicians

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.340

• Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

  Aeschylus

  Truth, Pain, Want

• What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Literature

• Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Forever, Without Pain

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.39, University of Chicago Press

• The reward of pain is experience.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Rewards

• For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Suffering, Would Be

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

• Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Lifetime, Length

• For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.

  Aeschylus

  Sweet, Pain, Hands

  Aeschylus (1956). “Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene”

• In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Aeschylus, Sophocles (2010). “Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

• Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Ends, Extremity

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.343

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