Aeschylus Suffering Quotations

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

Only through suffering do we learn

Suffering brings experience.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

By suffering comes wisdom.

The reward of suffering is experience

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

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

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

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.

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.

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

Wisdom cometh by suffering.

It is through suffering that learning comes.