53 Quotes About Electra

What an ugly, loveless life for a girl.

Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful deeds on your brother against his will.

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.

But death was a wind too strong for that.

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.

I live in a place of tears.

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

What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?

You drive me back down my desperation—that unclouded incurable never forgotten evil growing inside my life.