Aeschylus Quotes About Death

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  • Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

    Men  
    Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.412, Delphi Classics
  • A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

    Men  
    Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.414, Delphi Classics
  • Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

    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
  • Call no man happy till he is dead.

    Men  
    "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,
  • Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

  • The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

    Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.92, University of Chicago Press
  • For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

    Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.389, Delphi Classics
  • But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

    Men  
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Aeschylus

  • Born: 525 BC
  • Died: 456 BC
  • Occupation: Dramatist