53 Quotes About Electra

Now is no time to delay. This is the edge of action.

You are a woman marked for sorrow.

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

None but a fool or an infant could forget a father gone so far and cold. No. Lament is a pattern cut and fitted around my mind—like the bird who calls Itys! Itys! endlessly, bird of grief, angel of Zeus. O heartdragging Niobe, I count you a god: buried in rock yet always you weep.

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.

You gave birth to your own death.

But when a god sends harm, no man can sidestep it, no matter how strong he may be.

Give me a man, for his sons make courageous soldiers while pretty boys can only decorate the dance.

You're dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream.