769 Quotes by Sophocles

Know’st not whate’er we do is done in love?

Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day’s dusk, Trembles before your glory.

I don’t even exist – I’m no one. Nothing.

Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world.

Thou seek’st to part us, wrapping in soft words Hard thoughts.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good.

None but a fool or an infant could forget a father gone so far and cold. No. Lament is a pattern cut and fitted around my mind – like the bird who calls Itys! Itys! endlessly, bird of grief, angel of Zeus. O heartdragging Niobe, I count you a god: buried in rock yet always you weep.

Let every man in mankind’s frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.