Ten Plays Quotes

“NURSE: ...I'll never let go.
PHAEDRA: Then, poor woman, you'll have to share my doom.
NURSE: What doom could be worse than losing you?”
― Euripides, Ten Plays

“Had I the tongue of Orpheus and his mellifluous strains and by song could cast a spell on Persephone and her spouse to wrest you out of hell,

I should go down and neither Pluto’s hound nor the spirit-ferrying Charon at his oar could stop me: not till I’d brought your soul up into the light.

Wait for me down there. Wait for me to die.

Prepare the home where you and I shall live as one.

For I shall make them lay my bones side by side with yours: stretched out with you in the selfsame cedar box.”
― Euripides, Ten Plays

“I shall weep for you—not just one year but as long as life shall last.

Yes, my love, forever. And I’ll hate her who gave me birth, and curse my father.

Their love was only words; but you, you gave me the most precious thing you had, to save my life.

The loss—the loss of one like you— how can I not cry out in pain?”
― Euripides, Ten Plays