Electra Quotes (52 quotes)

“ORESTES: Never shall I see you again.

ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes.

ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk with you ever.

ELECTRA: O my homeland, goodbye. Goodbye to you, women of home.

ORESTES: Most loyal of sisters, do you leave now?

ELECTRA: I leave with tears blurring all that I see.”
― Euripides, Electra

tags: dialogue, electra, euripides, exile, farewell, goodbye, greek-tragedy, orestes, parting, sad

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“Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: electra, existence, fatalistic, greek-tragedy, pain, sophocles, suicidal

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“There is a kind of excellence in me and you—born in us—and it cannot live in shame.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: electra, excellence, pride, shame, sophocles

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“You're dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: dreaming, electra, sophocles

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“ORESTES: Just to see the outline of your suffering

ELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: electra, orestes, sophocles, suffering

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“What an ugly, loveless life for a girl.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: electra, hard-life, hardship, loveless, sophocles, suffering, ugly, unloved

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“I will not live by rules like those.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: electra, rebel, rebellious, rules, sophocles

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“Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: character, electra, flaws, self-aware, shame, sophocles, twisted

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“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—take me too!”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: begging, beseeching, death, electra, love, part-of-you, sophocles, take-me-with-you

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“Because she—you hear her—she's calling,
and is always going to call, and it's better
both of us die by the dagger without anyone
seeing us, Orestes, and die a fit death.”
― Gabriela Mistral, Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

tags: clytemnestra, electra, gabriela-mistral, greek-tragedy, guilt, haunted, madwomen, orestes, poetry, suicide

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“All my love gone for nothing. Days of my love, years of my love.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: electra, for-nothing, gone, love, sophocles, wasted, wasted-love

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“This is Electra. Brilliant no more.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: brilliant, dramatic, electra, greek-tragedy, reduced, ruined, sophocles

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“Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: dread, electra, sophocles, sorrow, suffering

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“ELECTRA: Oh but my love—now that you have travelled back down all those years to meet my heart, over all this grief of mine, do not oh love—

ORESTES: What are you asking?

ELECTRA: Do not turn your face from me. Don't take yourself away.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: beseeching, don-t-leave-me, electra, grief, heart, love, orestes, reunited, sophocles, stay-with-me

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“You are a woman marked for sorrow.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: bad-luck, electra, fated, sophocles, sorrow

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“But when a god sends harm, no man can sidestep it, no matter how strong he may be.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: electra, fate, fated, greek-gods, greek-tragedy, sophocles, unavoidable

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“And instead my beloved, luck sent you back to me colder than ashes, later than shadow.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: beloved, dead, death, electra, imagery, luck, metaphor, sophocles, unlucky

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“I am at the end. I exist no more.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: electra, end, existence, greek-tragedy, sophocles

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“Long have we lived in shadows and shuddering: today I think our future is opening out.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: electra, sophocles

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“Electra, grieving for death, for her father, as a nightingale grieving always.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: death, electra, grieving, nightingale, sophocles

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“But death was a wind too strong for that.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: death, electra, metaphor, sophocles, strong

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“Last night was a night of bad dreams and ambiguous visions.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: bad-dreams, electra, greek-tragedy, premonitions, sophocles, visions

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“Never since that time has this house got itself clear of rawblood butchery.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: curse, descriptive, electra, sophocles, violence

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“Careful! There is war in women too, as you know by experience, I think.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: electra, sophocles, war, women

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“You drive me back down my desperation—that unclouded incurable never forgotten evil growing inside my life.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: desperation, electra, evil, incurable, inescapable, inner-turmoil, sophocles

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“Orestes beloved. as you die you destroy me. You have torn away the part of my mind where hope was .”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: electra, greek-tragedy, hopeless, lost-hope, sophocles

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“Not long now: the blazing dream of my head is crawling out.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: dream, electra, made-real, metaphor, reality, sophocles

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“Here he comes like a stealing shadow, like a footprint of death into the rooms, stalking the past with freshcut blood in his hands.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: blood, death, description, descriptive, electra, simile, sophocles

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“I, Electra, fingering my garments
and my face, for in hours I was changed.
Now I am merely one who has killed.”
― Gabriela Mistral, Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral

tags: changed, electra, gabriela-mistral, greek-tragedy, killer, madwomen, poetry

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“You are nothing at all. Just a crack where the light slipped through.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: electra, light, metaphor, nothing, sophocles

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