34 Quotes Tagged: electra

Apollo, Apollo — but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are bound to acquiesce. And you must do now as Fate and Zeus ordain.

Friendship is a tension. It makes delicate demands.

There is a kind of excellence in me and you — born in us — and it cannot live in shame.

Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless future you've doled out.

You gave birth to your own death.

I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.

ELECTRA: Oh but my love — now that you have travelled back down all those years to meet my heart, over all this grief of mine, do not oh love — ORESTES: What are you asking?

ELECTRA: Do not turn your face from me. Don't take yourself away.

ORESTES: Never shall I see you again.

ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes.

ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk with you ever.

ELECTRA: O my homeland, goodbye. Goodbye to you, women of home.

ORESTES: Most loyal of sisters, do you leave now?

ELECTRA: I leave with tears blurring all that I see.

Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?

The hounds snap fierce at your heels. Turn toward Athens. I hear them pelting hard on you, I see black flesh and snake-hands coiling round a fruit of agonizing pain.

ORESTES: Just to see the outline of your suffering

ELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see.

Electra, grieving for death, for her father, as a nightingale grieving always.

Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.

I am at the end. I exist no more.

Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.