“Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.”
Source: Antigone
Filter quotes by topic
Famous Sophocles Quotes
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Source: Antigone
“Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.”
Source: Electra
Source: Electra
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
“Now is no time to delay. This is the edge of action.”
Source: Electra
Source: Oedipus Rex
“Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?”
Source: Antigone
“Last night was a night of bad dreams and ambiguous visions.”
Source: Electra
“OD: σὺ οὔτε φωνεῖς οὔτε δρασείεις σοφά. NE: ἀλλ‘ εἰ δίκαια, τῶν σοφῶν κρείσσω τάδε.”
“ὁρῶ γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδὲν ὄντας ἄλλο πλὴν, εἴδωλ‘ ὅσοιπερ ζῶμεν ἤ κούφην σκιάν”
“Harsh ways are taught by harshness.”
Source: Electra
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“Leave me to my own absurdity.”
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
“I say that this crime is holy.”
Source: Antigone
“What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?”
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.”
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
“Ungeheuer ist vieles, doch nichts ist ungeheurer als der Mensch.”
“Your heart beats hotly for chilling work!”
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
“It is my nature to join in love, not hate.”
Source: Antigone
Source: Antigone
Source: Electra
Source: Electra
“No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.”
Source: Antigone
“In a just cause, the weak overcome the strong”.”
Source: Oedipus at Colonus
“As for my sons, they'll inherit this: enough dirt to be dead in.”
Source: Oedipus at Colonus
“The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.”
Source: Oedipus the King
“The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.”
Source: Oedipus the King
Source: Oedipus Rex
Source: Oedipus Rex
Source: Ajax
“You are nothing at all. Just a crack where the light slipped through.”
Source: Electra
“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”
Source: Oedipus Rex
Source: Dramas of Sophocles