Euripides Quotes About Old Age

Quotes about: Old Age

• Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

  Euripides

  Sadness, Age, Helping

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

• Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

  Euripides

  Wise, Dream, Thinking

• Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

  Euripides

  Age, Difficult, Temper

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

• Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

  Euripides

  Prayer, Lying, Men

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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