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“Nothing forces us to know
What we do not want to know
Except pain”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“Oh, the torment bred in the race,
the grinding scream of death
and the stroke that hits the vein,
the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,
the curse no man can bear.

But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.

Now hear, you blissful powers underground --
answer the call, send help.
Bless the children, give them triumph now.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies

“This was always going to happen.
She's been dead since the beginning.”
― Aeschylus, Aeschylus: The Oresteia

“ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live.”
― Sophocles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“They came back
To widows,
To fatherless children,
To screams, to sobbing.
The men came back
As little clay jars
Full of sharp cinders.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“Thus he died, and all the life struggled out of him;
and as he died he spattered me with the dark red
and violent driven rain of bitter-savored blood
to make me glad, as gardens stand among the showers
of God in glory at the birthtime of the buds.”
― Aeschylus, Aeschylus: The Oresteia

“Pour everything out for the blood you have shed, you're wasting your time in appeasing the dead.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“A great ox stands on my tongue.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.”
― Aeschylus, Aeschylus I: Oresteia

“CHORUS: Helen! wild mad Helen
you murdered so many beneath Troy.
Now you’ve crowned yourself one final perfect time,
a crown of blood that will not wash away.
Strife walks with you everywhere you go.

KLYTAIMESTRA: Oh, stop whining.
And why get angry at Helen?
As if she singlehandedly destroyed those multitudes of men.
As if she all alone made this wound in us”
― Anne Carson, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all.
-Cassandra”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“But there is a cure in the house,
and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.”
― Aeschylus, The House of Atreus, Being the Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, and Furies of Æschylus, Tr. Into Engl. Verse by E.D.a. Morshead

“FURIES:
Over the beast doomed to the fire
this is the chant, scatter of wits,
frenzy and fear, hurting the heart,
song of the Furies
binding brain and blighting blood
in its stringless melody.”
― Aeschylus, Richard Lattimore, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“Learning comes through pain.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“You patronize me like some little woman
with no mind to call her own.
I speak with heart devoid of fear
to those with wit to understand,
and you can praise me or condemn me
as you like, it's all the same to me.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man fortunate.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“Horror gives place to wonder at your true account;
The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“Pain both ways and what is worse?”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“But to speak ill of people at hand who give no cause for blame, is to assume a right far distinct from justice.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“But whenever I take to my restless dreamless dewdrenched bed
I cannot close my eyes �� fear stands over me instead of sleep.
And whenever I think to sing or hum a tune to stay awake
then my tears fall.
This house is in trouble.
The good days are gone.
How I pray for a change! A happy change! A light in darkness.”
― Anne Carson, An Oresteia

“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“Zeus, whose will has marked for man
The sole way where wisdom lies;
Ordered one eternal plan:
Man must suffer to be wise.
Head-winds heavy with past ill
Stray his course and cloud his heart:
Sorrow takes the blind soul's part -
Man grows wise against his will.
For powers who rule from thrones above
By ruthlessness commend their love.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“لا توافق على العيش في ظل الفوضى، ولا في ظل الاستبداد”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“لا يمكن أن يقال إنه لا يحق للمرء أن يأخذ العدالة بيده، كما يقال في هذه الأيام، لأن العدالة إما أن تطبق على جميع الجرائم، أو لاتطبق أبدا . وفي هذه الحالة الأخيرة يحق لمن وقع عليه الأذى أن يأخذ العدالة بيده فيقابل الشر بالشر دون أن يسرف”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“I shall select judges of manslaughter, and swear them in, establish a court into all time to come. 485 Litigants, call your witnesses, have ready your proofs as evidence under bond to keep this case secure. I will pick the finest of my citizens, and come back. They shall swear to make no judgment that is not just, and make clear where in this action the truth lies.”
― Aeschylus, Aeschylus II: The Oresteia

“I have suffered into truth (...) Time refines all things that age with time”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“التوبيخات هي حوافز الحكيم”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides