“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“I take my cue from deeds, not words.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“Sorrow with me, Sorrowful one!
Tell me, whose voice proclaims
Things true and sad,
Naming by all their old, unhappy names,
What drove me mad--”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“There is no sickness worse for me that words that to be kind must lie.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“For obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“Un sabio, sí, era un sabio quien por primera vez alzó en su mente y con su lengua expresó que la boda con un igual es lo mejor, con mucho, y que ni con quienes por su riqueza viven en la molicie ni con quienes por su linaje están ensoberbecidos, cuando uno es un jornalero, ha de ambicionar casarse...”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“Time in its aging course teaches all things.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
“Trust my folly then, since it is best
for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.”
― Aeschylus, quote from Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus
Born place: in Eleusis, Attica, Greece
Born date December 20, 0524
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“Sandry: "There has to be something we can do."
Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix."
Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Daja's Book
“The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Servant of the Bones
“The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How many children do you have? "Four," she will say, "—three," and years later, "Three," she will say, "—four.”
― Amy Hempel, quote from The Collected Stories
“I know why you're here ... This world doesn't frighten you half as much as the other one. You have nothing and nobody to lose here. Except Fox, and she clearly worries more about you than you do about her. You've left all that could frighten you in the other world. But then Will came here and brought it all with him.”
― Cornelia Funke, quote from Reckless
“Tashi, you know I love you, don't you?" he said sofly in her ear.
She smiled: trust the son of a Horse Follower to woo in the saddle.
"I thought we were already betrothed."
"You broke it off, remember." He kissed the top of her head.
"Oh yes, I suppose I did. I'm sorry about that."
"I didn't deserve you. I don't deserve you now."
"Well, as long as you know that." She turned and gave him a mischievous smile.”
― Julia Golding, quote from Dragonfly
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