Sophocles Quotes

Closer,
it’s all right. Touch the man of grief.
Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine
and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right

The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.

he came to know the god intimately and the strange mad flower of his mind dripped in the dark

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

It's little I ask, and get still less, but quite enough for me.

For time alone shews a man's honesty,
But in one day you may discern his guilt.

I don't even exist — I'm no one. Nothing.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

For Time calls only once, and that determines all.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.