Theban Plays
A source page for quotes linked to Sophocles.
Related Quotes
Source: Antigone
“I am free! for I have in me the strength of truth.”
Source: Oedipus Rex
Source: Ajax
“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
Source: Ajax
Source: Electra
Source: Oedipus at Colonus
Source: White Lies
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“Alas! how terrible it is to know, Where no good comes of knowing!”
Source: Oedipus Rex
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“Twere best, if anything is best in evil times. What's soonest done, is best, when all is ill.”
Source: Electra
“I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon”
Source: Antigone
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Source: Ajax
Source: Ajax
“But when a god sends harm, no man can sidestep it, no matter how strong he may be.”
Source: Electra
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Source: Antigone
“A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist”
“And if you think I've acted foolishly, maybe I'm being charged with folly by a fool.”
Source: Antigone
“I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.”
Source: Electra
“May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene”
Source: Antigone
Source: Electra
“Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread.”
Source: Electra
“Wise words; but O, when wisdom brings no profit, To be wise is to suffer.”
Source: Oedipus Rex
“What an ugly, loveless life for a girl.”
Source: Electra
Source: Electra
“Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.”
Source: Electra
“I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life”
Source: Antigone
“We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us”
Source: Antigone
Source: Electra
“There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.”
Source: Antigone
“There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”
Source: Antigone
“A city which belongs to just one man is no true city”
Source: Antigone
“Electra, grieving for death, for her father, as a nightingale grieving always.”
Source: Electra
Source: Electra
“And instead my beloved, luck sent you back to me colder than ashes, later than shadow.”
Source: Electra
“But death was a wind too strong for that.”
Source: Electra
“Not long now: the blazing dream of my head is crawling out.”
Source: Electra
Source: Antigone
Source: The Tragedies Of Sophocles: In English Prose, The Oxford Translation
Source: Electra
“The doom reserved for enemies marches on the ones we love the most.”
Source: Antigone
“For Time calls only once, and that determines all.”
Source: Electra
“How sad when those who reason, reason wrong.”
Source: Antigone