Greek Tragedy Quotes

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

Euripides

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

Euripides

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

Euripides

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Euripides

In childbirth grief begins.

Euripides

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

Euripides

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Euripides

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest.

Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive

Euripides

[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.