769 Quotes by Sophocles

Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

Hail the sun! the brightest of all that everDawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes!Hail the golden dawn over Dirce's riverRising to speed the flight of the white invaders Homeward in full retreat!" - Chorus

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.

Twere best, if anything is best in evil times.What's soonest done, is best, when all is ill.

AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux.ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuvent obéir aux amis qui les conseillent bien.

Never since that time has this house got itself clear of rawblood butchery.

There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

(...) I, for one, prize lessThe name of king than deeds of kingly power;And so would all who learn in wisdom’s school.