Sophocles Quotes

Evil sometimes seems good To a man whose mind A god leads to destruction.

All my love gone for nothing. Days of my love, years of my love.

Always desire to learn something useful.

"There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,
When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone." - Sentry

It's perfect justice: natures like yours are hardest on themselves.

Oblivion - what a blessing...for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

When he endures nothing but endless miseries — What pleasure is there in living the day after day,
Edging slowly back and forth toward death?
Anyone who warms their heart with the glow
Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all.
The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.

Let every man in mankind's frailty Consider his last day; and let none Presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise — that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer — such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.

The stubbornest of wills
Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron,
O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,
Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

Come, Fate, a friend at need,
Come with all speed!
Come, my best friend,
And speed my end!
Away, away!
Let me not look upon another day!

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I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life