80 Quotes About Sophocles

Careful! There is war in women too, as you know by experience, I think.

Remember: women may not be too weakTo strike a blow.-Sophocles, Electra

Leave me to my own absurdity.

The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.

Seven matched with seven, at each gate one,Their captains, when the day was done,Left for our Zeus who turned the scale,The brazen tribute in full tale: -All save the horror-burdened pair,Dire children of despair,Who from one sire, one mother, drawing breath,Each with conquering lance in restAgainst a true born brother's breast,Found equal lots in death.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

Weep not, everything must have its day.

One word frees us all the weight and pain of life: That word is Love. -Sophocles

Whose tale more sad than thine, whose lot more dire? O Oedipus, discrowned head, Thy cradle was thy marriage bed.