769 Quotes by Sophocles

Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death – what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in truth!

It is God’s giving if we laugh or weep.

Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear – don’t fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you’ve come to now.

An enemy’s gift is ruinous and no gift.

No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne’er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

One’s own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

Obedience to authority saves many skins.

I write a woman’s oaths in water.