Death Quotes by Aeschylus

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

— Aeschylus

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

— Aeschylus

For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

— Aeschylus

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

— Aeschylus

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

— Aeschylus

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

— Aeschylus

The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

— Aeschylus

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

— Aeschylus

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

— Aeschylus

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

— Aeschylus

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

— Aeschylus

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

— Aeschylus

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

— Aeschylus

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain…

— Aeschylus

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is…

— Aeschylus

“And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth…

— Aeschylus

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything;…

— Aeschylus

A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death,…

— Aeschylus

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

— Aeschylus

“Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.”

— Aeschylus

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

— Aeschylus

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

— Aeschylus

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

— Aeschylus

Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

— Aeschylus

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

— Aeschylus

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

— Aeschylus

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

— Aeschylus

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

— Aeschylus

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

— Aeschylus

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

— Aeschylus

Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

— Aeschylus

When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it…

— Aeschylus

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

— Aeschylus

“Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none…

— Aeschylus