80 Quotes About 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

Someone who writes aphorisms shouldn't pretend to be competing with Dante or Sophocles.

ELECTRA: Oh but my love—now that you have travelled back down all those years to meet my heart, over all this grief of mine, do not oh love—ORESTES: What are you asking?ELECTRA: Do not turn your face from me. Don't take yourself away.

Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread.