769 Quotes by Sophocles

CHOR. Denn weder reifen des herrlichen Landes Früchte noch tauchen bei ihren Geburten aus qualvollen Schmerzen empor die Frauen; doch einen zum andern kannst du sehen gleich gut befiederten Vögeln, jäher als unwiderstehliches Feuer losfliegen dem Strande zu des abenddunkeln Gottes.

ÖDIPUS. Wie packt mich, da ich eben dich gehört hab, Frau, der Seele Irrlauf und Erschütterung des Geistes!

You won't listen to reason at all, will you?""No. My mind is my own.

Things gained by unjust fraud are never secure

The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.

The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.

How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be When there’s no help in truth.

Long, long ago; her thought was of that childBy him begot, the son by whom the sireWas murdered and the mother left to breedWith her own seed, a monstrous progeny.Then she bewailed the marriage bed whereonPoor wretch, she had conceived a double brood,Husband by husband, children by her child.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.