Quote

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

Aeschylus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aeschylus
Dramatist
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Warrior
Elefsina
Æschylus
Aeschylos
Mortal
Hath
Mortals
Smoke
Shadow
Thought
Kind
Surety

More quotes by Aeschylus

Image
The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.
Aeschylus
Image
The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.
Aeschylus
Image
Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.
Aeschylus
Image
Delay not to seize the hour!
Aeschylus
Image
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
Aeschylus
Image
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.
Aeschylus
Image
Time cleanses what it touches over time.
Aeschylus
Image
By suffering comes wisdom.
Aeschylus
Image
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
Aeschylus
Image
Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
Aeschylus
Image
For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?
Aeschylus
Image
When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.
Aeschylus
Image
With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
Aeschylus
Image
The field of doom bears death as its harvest.
Aeschylus
Image
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
Aeschylus
Image
Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
Aeschylus
Image
I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.
Aeschylus
Image
. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.
Aeschylus
Image
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus
Image
You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
Aeschylus