Aeschylus Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

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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.

• Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Positive, Wisdom, World Suffering

  Aeschylus (1997). “Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)”, p.12, University of Pennsylvania Press

• 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

• Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Justice, Suffering, Coping

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.144, Delphi Classics

• 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

• The reward of suffering is experience

  Aeschylus

  Failure, Adversity, Suffering

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

• Only through suffering do we learn

  Aeschylus

  Suffering

• For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

  Aeschylus

  Hate, Heart, Hatred

• Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Justice, Suffering, Literature

  "Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

• 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

• It is through suffering that learning comes.

  Aeschylus

  Suffering

• Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

  Aeschylus

  Memories, Grief, Heart

• Wisdom cometh by suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Wisdom, Suffering

  Aeschylus (1926). “Aeschylus”

• For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

  Aeschylus

  Blow, Suffering, Done

  "The Libation Bearers". Play by Aeschylus,

• Suffering brings experience.

  Aeschylus

  Suffering

  "Agamemnon". Play by Æschylus, line 185. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", 1922.

• 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”

• I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

  Aeschylus

  Suffering, Way, I've Learned

  Aeschylus, Alan Shapiro, Peter Burian (2003). “The Oresteia”, p.159, Oxford University Press, USA

• Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Learning, Law, Suffering

• 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,

• For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

  Aeschylus

  Sweet, Grief, Suffering

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.367, Delphi Classics

• Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

  Aeschylus

  Suffering, Despair

• It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

  Aeschylus

  Feet, Light, Suffering

• There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

  Aeschylus

  Hate, Hands, Enemy

• Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

  Aeschylus

  Long, Suffering, Lasts

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

• If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Evil, Suffering

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