Medea Quotes

“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour”
― Euripides, Medea

“Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive”
― Euripides, Medea

“My love for you
was greater than my wisdom.”
― Euripides, Medea

“I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.”
― Euripides, Medea

“For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.”
― Euripides, Medea

“It's human; we all put self interest first.”
― Euripides, Medea

“I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.”
― Euripides, Medea

“death is the only water to wash away this dirt”
― Euripides, Medea

“I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.”
― Euripides, Medea

“I will storm the Gods and shake the Universe”
― Euripides, Medea

“Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Since I am wise, some people envy me,
some think I'm idle, some the opposite,
and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Gods often contradict
our fondest expectations.
What we anticipate
does not come to pass.
What we don't expect
some god finds a way to make it happen.
So with this story”
― Euripides, Medea

“Old loves are dropped when new ones come”
― Euripides, Medea

“We must not think too much: people go mad if they think too much.”
― Euripides, Medea

“O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?”
― Euripides, Medea

“In childbirth grief begins.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Let no one think me a weak one, feeble-spirited, A stay-at-home, but rather just the opposite, One who can hurt my enemies and help my friends; For the lives of such persons are most remembered.”
― Euripides, Medea

“You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.”
― Euripides, Medea

“MEDEA: The gods know who was the author of this sorrow.
JASON: Yes, the gods know indeed, they know your loathsome heart.
MEDEA: Hate me. But I tire of your barking bitterness.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings an end to everything.”
― Euripides, Medea

“It would have been better far for men To have got their children in some other way, and women Not to have existed. Then life would have been good. CHORUS”
― Euripides, Medea

“What heavenly power lends an ear
To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?”
― Euripides, Medea