53 Quotes About Electra

Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.

ORESTES: Just to see the outline of your sufferingELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see.

Here he comes like a stealing shadow, like a footprint of death into the rooms, stalking the past with freshcut blood in his hands.

All my love gone for nothing. Days of my love, years of my love.

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

Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.

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

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.

No pity for these things, there is no pity but mine, oh father, for the pity of your butchering rawblood death.