Source: Antigone
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Famous Sophocles Quotes
Source: Electra
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Source: Ajax
“We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us”
Source: Antigone
“Electra, grieving for death, for her father, as a nightingale grieving always.”
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
“Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.”
Source: Electra
Source: Electra
Source: Electra
“For the dead there are no more toils.”
Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
“Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.”
Source: Sophocles