AESCHYLUS QUOTES VI

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

Thus upon mine restful couch I lie,
Bathed with the dews of night, unvisited
By dreams--ah me!--for in the place of sleep
Stands Fear as my familiar, and repels
The soft repose that would mine eyelids seal.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon


But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

AESCHYLUS

Libation Bearers

Tags: passion


Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf,
Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child,
As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: old age


To many mortals silence great gain brings.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: silence


The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Heliades


Night, o my mother, from whose womb I took my being.

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides

Tags: night


Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: success, envy


Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, he dieth not, unless the appointed time, the limit of his life's span, coincide; nor does the man who by the hearth at home sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: death, fate


The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


Trouble, with its memories of pain, drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, so men against their will learn to practice moderation.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: sleep


Time brings all things to pass.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers

Tags: time


Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides

Tags: pride


For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Hoplon Krisis

Tags: grief


When deep slumber falls, remembered sins
Chafe the sore heart with fresh pain, and no
Welcome wisdom meets within.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon


But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides

Tags: death


In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Sisyphos

Tags: death


The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

AESCHYLUS

Eumenides

Tags: mothers


Rumors have wings.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: rumors


We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

AESCHYLUS

The Oresteia

Tags: morality


Would that I might get a mantle like unto the heavens!

AESCHYLUS

Salaminiai