Euripidés: Quotes about love

Euripidés was ancient Athenian playwright. Explore interesting quotes on love.
Euripidés: 232   quotes 39   likes

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

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

Love , Hate , Lovers

“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”

Euripidés Orestes

Source: Orestes (408 BC), l. 298, as translated by William Arrowsmith

love , Love , Way , Help

“Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetry
with which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord,
I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below.”

Euripidés Alcestis

Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 358
Context: Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetry
with which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord,
I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below.
I'd go down there for you. Charon or the grim
King's dog could not prevent me then
from carrying you up into the fields of light.

Love , World

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”

Euripidés

Source: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus

Love , Rage , Anger

“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.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

Love , Fear , Way , Soul

“p>Helen: What happened in my heart, to make me leave my home
And my own land, to follow where a stranger led?
Rail at the goddess; be more resolute than Zeus,
Who holds power over all other divinities
But is himself the slave of love. Show Aphrodite
Your indignation; me, pardon and sympathy.Hecabe: No; Paris was an extremely handsome man – one look,
And your appetite became your Aphrodite. Why,
Men's lawless lusts are all called love – it's a confusion
Easily made.”

Euripidés The Trojan Women

Troades (c. 415 BC), lines 946–950 and 987–990 (tr. Philip Vellacott)

Love , Men , Home , Heart