Aeschylus Quotes About Doom

Quotes about: Doom

• 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

  Home, Heart, Fate

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.235

• Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

  Aeschylus

  Destiny, Wealth, Subtle

  Aeschylus (1901). “Aeschylos: Agamemnon. The libation-pourers. Eumenides. Fragments. Rhymed choruses from Agamemnon, The libation-pourers, Eumenides”

• 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

• 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

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