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"The Trojan Women" Quotes
"The Trojan Women" by Euripides is a tragic play that captures the suffering and lamentation of the women of Troy following the city's fall to the Greeks.
Quotes
For in the time of weeping, a woman’s heart is soft and easily broken.
griefemotionstrength
The gods care not for us, it seems.
divine indifferencefatereligion
Hope is the only thing left to us, and even that is fading.
hopedespairfate
To suffer and to weep is woman's fate.
sufferinggender rolesfate
Better to die on our feet than live on our knees.
couragefreedomresistance
The past is a shadow that cannot be escaped.
memoryregretfate
Tears have their own wisdom.
griefwisdomhealing
There is no greater pain than to remember happiness in times of misery.
memorysufferingloss
Men make plans, and the gods laugh.
fatedivine willirony
The world is but a stage of woe.
tragedylifephilosophy
