Sophocles Quotes

A lie never lives to be old.

By dread things I am compelled. I know that. I see the trap closing. I know what I am. But while life is in me I will not stop this violence. No. Oh my friends who is there to comfort me? Who understands? Leave me be, let me go, do not soothe me. This is a knot no one can untie. There will be no rest, there is no retrieval. No number exists for griefs like these.

يجب على المرء أن يقول ما هو حقيقي، وعندما يتحدث يمسك لسانه ولا ينطق أبداً بالضغائن، او يتهكم بطريقة لاذعة.

[S]ilence supports the accuser’s charge?

Wild as you are, all that love you must love you still.

I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

You chose to live, I chose to die.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

Despite so many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is well.

Even in these straits our life is not as pitiful as you'd think, so long as we find joy in every hour.

I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards — all that your can do is to have me killed.

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.