“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“I wish you joy. To spend life's fleeting days mid joy that never meets an evil hour is to be blessed beyond… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to… — Steven D. Price Copy Share Image
“No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Apollo, Apollo—but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“The hounds snap fierce at your heels. Turn toward Athens. I hear them pelting hard on you, I see black flesh and… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I reckon I probably worked for Euripides a long time ago. I do think we have many Earth walks and it's possible… — Joyce DeWitt Copy Share Image
“The wisest men follow their own direction And listen to no prophet guiding them. None but the fools believe in oracles, Forsaking… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“ Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I wake up at night thinking about Euripides' 'Hecuba.' That to me is a story that says so much about what it… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear… — John Gray Copy Share Image
“ORESTES: Never shall I see you again. ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes. ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Bear witness for one who is loved and not loved: we cast the cloak gently around her, an end of great woe… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate! CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Give me a man, for his sons make courageous soldiers while pretty boys can only decorate the dance.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by… — Euripides Copy Share Image
