Aeschylus Pain Quotations

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

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

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

The reward of pain is experience.

For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

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

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.

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.

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

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.