Aeschylus - Pain Quotes

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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

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Zeus, who guided mortals to be wise,
has established his fixed law—
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
seated on their solemn thrones—
such grace is harsh and violent.

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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.

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It is easy for the one who stands outside
The prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one
Who suffers.

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

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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.

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Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

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To the sick some gleam of comfort Flows from the knowledge of their pains to come.

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