Aeschylus Quotes About Suffering

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  • The reward of suffering is experience

    "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,
  • Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

    Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.144, Delphi Classics
  • He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

  • For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.

    Aeschylus (1956). “Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene”
  • Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

    Aeschylus (1961). “Prometheus Bound. The Suppliants. Seven Against Thebes. The Persians”, Penguin Classics
  • Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

    "Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,
  • It is through suffering that learning comes.

  • There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

  • Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

    Aeschylus (1997). “Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)”, p.12, University of Pennsylvania Press
  • 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.

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

    "The Libation Bearers". Play by Aeschylus,
  • I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

    Aeschylus, Alan Shapiro, Peter Burian (2003). “The Oresteia”, p.159, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

    Aeschylus (2007). “The Oresteia”, p.13, RicherResourcesPublications
  • Suffering brings experience.

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

    Aeschylus (1926). “Aeschylus”
  • Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

    Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.343
  • It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

  • By suffering comes wisdom.

    "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,
  • Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

    Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.412, Delphi Classics
  • Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.

  • For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

    "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,
  • 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.

  • For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

    Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.367, Delphi Classics
  • Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

  • The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

    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
  • Only through suffering do we learn

  • For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

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Aeschylus

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