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Aeschylus Quotes about Pain

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

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

Missing You, Pain, Memories

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.

Truth, Pain, Suffering

The reward of pain is experience.

Pain, Rewards

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Wall, Pain, Suffering

Aeschylus (1961). “Prometheus Bound. The Suppliants. Seven Against Thebes. The Persians”, Penguin Classics

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

Truth, Pain, Want

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.

Pain, Memories, Heart

Aeschylus (2007). “The Oresteia”, p.13, RicherResourcesPublications

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Pain, Rowing, Advantage

Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Pain, Suffering, Would Be

"Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Pain, Ends, Extremity

Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.343

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

Death, Pain, Dying

Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.232

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

Pain, Literature

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

Pain, Memories, Rain

Aeschylus, Sophocles (2010). “Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Art, Pain, Physicians

Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.340

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Pain, Forever, Without Pain

Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.39, University of Chicago Press

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

Pain, Lifetime, Length

For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.

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”

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