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?

Do not fear for me. Make straight your own path to destiny.

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one’s own life, which one loves best.

I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.

All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

All my care is you, and all my pleasure yours.

Of all ill, Self-chosen sorrows are the worst to bear.

Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.

Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away.