Sophocles Quotes

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

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

I am determined that never, if I can help it,Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon

Hail the sun! the brightest of all that everDawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes!Hail t...

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

There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,When it finds its nest left empt and little ones go...

Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes,Tem...

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

Evil gains work their punishment.

Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief.Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am th...

OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no m...

JOCASTA:So clear in this case were the oracles,so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;what God...

CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles a...

TEIRESIAS:I tell you, king, this man, this murderer(whom you have long declared you are in search of...

TEIRESIAS:You have your eyes but see not where you arein sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live ...

OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many...

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin do...