80 Quotes About Sophocles

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan

No pity for these things, there is no pity but mine, oh father, for the pity of your butchering rawblood death.

Like it or not, after Freud, no one had to read Sophocles to know something about Oedipus.

Last night was a night of bad dreams and ambiguous visions.

Orestes beloved. as you die you destroy me. You have torn away the part of my mind where hope was .

What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?

This is Electra. Brilliant no more.

Oh my love take me there. Let me dwell where you are. I am already nothing, I am already burning. Oh my love, I was once part of you—take me too!

Long have we lived in shadows and shuddering: today I think our future is opening out.