I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
EuripidesRead
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The transition from love to hate in a relationship can be prolonged and difficult.
This quote reflects on the intense emotions involved in romantic relationships, emphasizing that love can transform into hate, and such a transition can be slow and painful. It suggests that when love turns sour, the remnants of those strong feelings linger, making it hard for individuals to move on and detach from the emotional bond that once united them.
Themes
LoveHateRelationshipsEmotionTransition
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech about overcoming relationship challenges.
More from Euripides
All quotes βMankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
EuripidesRead
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
EuripidesRead
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
EuripidesRead
Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.
EuripidesRead
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
EuripidesRead
Similar quotes
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
Barbara DemickRead
Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!
Angela CarterRead
No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.
Olive SchreinerRead
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
Queen Elizabeth IiRead
She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
Fay WeldonRead
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
Jeanette WintersonRead