769 Quotes by Sophocles

And instead my beloved, luck sent you back to me colder than ashes, later than shadow.

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene, Antigone (The Theban Plays) by Sophocles

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene

I will not live by rules like those.

Think again, Electra. Don't say anymore. Don't you see what you're doing? You make your own pain. Why keep wounding yourself? With so much evil stored up in that cold dark soul of yours you breed enemies everywhere you touch.

There is no more deadly peril than disobedience;States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins,Armies defeated, victory turned to rout.White simple obedience saves the lives of hundredsOf honest folk." - Creon

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Though he has watched a decent age pass by,A man will sometimes still desire the world.I swear I see no wisdom in that man.The endless hours pile up a drift of painMore unrelieved each day; and as for pleasure,When he is sunken in excessive age,You will not see his pleasure anywhere.- Choral Poem between Scenes V & VI, Oedipus at Colonus