The Libation Bearers Quotes

“No man can go through life
and reach the end unharmed.
Aye, trouble is now,
and trouble still to come.”
― Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers

“Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.”
― Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers

“Time brings all things to pass.”
― Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers

“Here I am. Look no furter. No one loves you more than I.”
― Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers

“We call on the gods, and the gods well know
what storms torment us, sailors whirled to nothing.
But if we are to live and reach the haven,
one small seed could grow a mighty tree -”
― Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers

“and life beats on, and
we nurse our lives with tears,
to the sound of ripping linen beat our robes in sorrow,
close to the breast the beats throb
and laughter's gone and fortune throbs and throbs.”
― Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers

“No dreams, these torments,
not to me, they're clear, real - the hounds
of mother's hate.”
― Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers

“Marvels, the Earth breeds many marvels,
terrible marvels overwhelm us.
The heaving arms of the sea embrace and swarm
with savage life. And high in the no man's land of night
torches hang like swords.”
― Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers

“You are dreaming, children,
dreams dearer than gold, more blest
than the Blest beyond the North Wind's raging.
Dreams are easy, oh,
but the double lash is striking home.”
― Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers