The Human Tragedy
To J.H. Rosny
The Human Tragedy
Πᾶς δ’ ὀδυνηρὸς βίος ἀνθρώπων,
κοὐκ ἔστι πόων ἀνάπαυσις.
ἄλλο τι τοῦ ζῆν φίλτερον, ἀλλ’ ὃ
σκότος ἀμπίσχων κρύπτει νεφέλαις.
(Euripides, Hippolytus, 190 sqq.)1
Notes
1 “All the life of man is full of pain, and there is no surcease of sorrow. If there be aught better elsewhere than this present life, it is hid shrouded in the clouds of darkness.”