Euripides, Medea Quotes

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

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

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

In childbirth grief begins.

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