The Storyteller: Greek Myths (TV Series)

Orpheus & Eurydice (1991)

Art Malik: Orpheus

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• Persephone : Everything must die, Orpheus, the people we love most have to die, even the rocks, the earth itself is eaten away by time. Everything must die, Orpheus.

  Orpheus : [stops playing his flute]  To live again!

• Orpheus : [to Eurydice]  I am Orpheus. Or... pheus. I have sung storms to sleep. I have made the clashing rocks move away from our ship. I have been to the end of the world and seen things more terrible, more beautiful than I thought could be. But you...

• Hades : Who comes uninvited to my kingdom?

  Orpheus : I am Orpheus, king of Thrace, son of Calliope.

  Hades : And what does King Orpheus seek from Hades?

  Orpheus : The soul now before you in judgement. Eurydice, my wife.

  Hades : No soul returns from my kingdom.

  Orpheus : Love is stronger than death.

  Hades : [laughs]  Nothing is stronger than death, little musician.

• Orpheus : My lyre must always play. For without music we are nothing. We knead the shapes out of nothing. Tunes out of silence, love out of hate. Music that lasts forever.