Quotes from Sophocles

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

It's perfect justice: natures like yours are hardest on themselves.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Only a fool could be in love with death.

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

It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.

You're in love with impossibility

You're dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream.

There is a kind of excellence in me and you—born in us—and it cannot live in shame.

What do I care for life when you are dead?

Another husband could be found and with That husband another son. But I have no mother now. I have no father. I cannot bring another brother to the world.

ORESTES: Just to see the outline of your suffering ELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see.

Despite so many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is well.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Far-stretching, endless Time Brings forth all hidden things, And buries that which once did shine. The firm resolve falters, the sacred oath is shattered; And let none say, It cannot happen here.

Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?

I am at the end. I exist no more.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

My nails are broken, my fingers are bleeding, my arms are covered with the welts left by the paws of your guards—but I am a queen!

The good leader repeats the good news, keeps the worst to himself.

S]ilence supports the accuser's charge?

What an ugly, loveless life for a girl.

It is a painful thing To look at your own trouble and know That you yourself and no one else has made it