Euripides Quote by Euripides Download Open image ““We would have to think the gods had no minds, to pray for murderers.”” — Euripides ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Euripides Greek tragedy Greek-gods Iphigenia-at-aulis Mindless Psychology
“So much violence. If God existed, I'd have strangled him on the spot. Without batting an eyelid. And with all the fury of the… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
“Murder simply hastens a bit what God will eventually see to on His own.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“n I pray for myself because what does it mean to love the murderer?” — Emma Shaw Crane Copy Share Image
“Murder—the wish to do murder—is something quite different. It—how shall I say?—it defies God.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Good God, how can you kill someone and then take even his own death away from him?” — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
“God’s work. So why didn’t he feel exalted? Why did he feel like a murderer?” — Ruth Warburton Copy Share Image
“I had no choice but to pray for his death. Typically enough, the one thing that never occurred to me was to kill him.… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“To pray for their safety was to pray for the death of other young men he did not even know.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one… — Epicurus 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 put justice… — Euripides Copy Share Image
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. — Euripides Copy Share Image
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And devious coverts, hunter-wise, He coucheth… — Euripides Copy Share Image
There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out… — 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 put justice… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides 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 their own… — Euripides 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 deeds on… — Euripides 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 for him.” — Euripides 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 has anything… — John Gray 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 snake-hands coiling… — 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
“I wish you joy. To spend life's fleeting days mid joy that never meets an evil hour is to be blessed beyond compare.” — 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
