Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Aeschyluswas an ancient Greek tragedian. His plays, alongside those of Sophocles and Euripides, are the only works of Classical Greek literature to have survived. He is often described as the father of tragedy: critics and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in theater to allow conflict among them, whereas characters previously had interacted only...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
pain wall suffering
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
pain ends extremity
Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.
pain memories rain
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.
truth pain suffering
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.
pain memories sleep
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.
pain suffering would-be
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
art pain physicians
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
death pain dying
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.
pain truth want
Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
pain lifetime length
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
pain forever without-pain
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
pain rewards
The reward of pain is experience.
sweet pain hands
For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.
pain rowing advantage
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.