53 Quotes About Electra

I wish you joy. To spend life's fleeting days mid joy that never meets an evil hour is to be blessed beyond compare.

Not long now: the blazing dream of my head is crawling out.

Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.

Because she—you hear her—she's calling,and is always going to call, and it's betterboth of us die by the dagger without anyoneseeing us, Orestes, and die a fit death.

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?

By dread things I am compelled. I know that. I see the trap closing. I know what I am. But while life is in me I will not stop this violence. No. Oh my friends who is there to comfort me? Who understands? Leave me be, let me go, do not soothe me. This is a knot no one can untie. There will be no rest, there is no retrieval. No number exists for griefs like these.

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

Never since that time has this house got itself clear of rawblood butchery.

I, Electra, fingering my garmentsand my face, for in hours I was changed.Now I am merely one who has killed.