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Aeschylus Quotes about Suffering

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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

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

Only through suffering do we learn

Suffering

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

Sweet, Grief, Suffering

Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.367, Delphi Classics

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

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Justice, Suffering, Coping

Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.144, Delphi Classics

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,

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

Feet, Light, Suffering

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Suffering, Despair

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Long, Suffering, Lasts

Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.412, Delphi Classics

Wisdom cometh by suffering.

Wisdom, Suffering

Aeschylus (1926). “Aeschylus”

It is through suffering that learning comes.

Suffering

The reward of suffering is experience

Failure, Adversity, Suffering

"Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

By suffering comes wisdom.

Suffering

"Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Justice, Suffering, Literature

"Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Suffering, Way, I've Learned

Aeschylus, Alan Shapiro, Peter Burian (2003). “The Oresteia”, p.159, Oxford University Press, USA

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Men, Evil, Suffering

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

Men, Suffering, Doe

Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.233

Suffering brings experience.

Suffering

"Agamemnon". Play by Æschylus, line 185. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", 1922.

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

Suffering, Birth, Glory

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

For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

Blow, Suffering, Done

"The Libation Bearers". Play by Aeschylus,

Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.

Learning, Law, Suffering

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