Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

PHAIDRA
What is this thing they call falling in love?

NURSE
Something absolutely sweet and absolutely bitter at the same time.

Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life,
it's just catastrophe.

The world after a world war becomes a simple place. It is divided simply into the dead, who are the majority, and those who are somehow managed not to die, whom we call the living. How they live is not important.

God must, if God is truly God,
lack nothing.

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

human virtue derives from human limitation; gods' virtue does not exist