Electra Quotes

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Electra Quotes
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“Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.”
― Electra
― Electra
“Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?”
― Electra
― Electra
“ORESTES: Just to see the outline of your suffering
ELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see.”
― Electra
ELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see.”
― Electra
“There is a kind of excellence in me and you鈥攂orn in us鈥攁nd it cannot live in shame.”
― Electra
― Electra
“Orestes: How could you recognize me after all these years?
Elektra: What a stupid question. I was born knowing you.”
― Electra
Elektra: What a stupid question. I was born knowing you.”
― Electra
“Think again, Electra. Don't say anymore. Don't you see what you're doing? You make your own pain. Why keep wounding yourself? With so much evil stored up in that cold dark soul of yours you breed enemies everywhere you touch.”
― Electra
― Electra
“Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me鈥攂elieve me. Sometimes I shock myself.”
― Electra
― Electra
“By dread things I am compelled. I know that. I see the trap closing. I know what I am. But while life is in me I will not stop this violence. No. Oh my friends who is there to comfort me? Who understands? Leave me be, let me go, do not soothe me. This is a knot no one can untie. There will be no rest, there is no retrieval. No number exists for griefs like these.”
― Electra
― Electra
“ELECTRA: Oh but my love鈥攏ow that you have travelled back down all those years to meet my heart, over all this grief of mine, do not oh love鈥�
ORESTES: What are you asking?
ELECTRA: Do not turn your face from me. Don't take yourself away.”
― Electra
ORESTES: What are you asking?
ELECTRA: Do not turn your face from me. Don't take yourself away.”
― Electra
“Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread.”
― Electra
― Electra
“Orestes beloved. as you die you destroy me. You have torn away the part of my mind where hope was .”
― Electra
― Electra
“Oh my love take me there. Let me dwell where you are. I am already nothing, I am already burning. Oh my love, I was once part of you鈥攖ake me too!”
― Electra
― Electra
“And instead my beloved, luck sent you back to me colder than ashes, later than shadow.”
― Electra
― Electra