769 Quotes by Sophocles

And remember that the captor is now the captive; the hunter is in the snare. What was won by stealth will not be kept.

You're dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream.

ORESTES: Just to see the outline of your sufferingELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

Here he comes like a stealing shadow, like a footprint of death into the rooms, stalking the past with freshcut blood in his hands.

Thus (through the eyes of my young acolyte,Who sees for me, that I may see for others)I read the signs of failure in my quest.

Tis better not to be than to vilely live.""Greedy of gain is every barbarous tribe.

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.

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