Quotes from Sophocles

No pity for these things, there is no pity but mine, oh father, for the pity of your butchering rawblood death.

who will he be, my dear ones? Risking all to shoulder the curse that weighs down my parents, yes and you too—that wounds us all together

tis greater far To rule a people than a wilderness.

yes and you too—that wounds us all together

Like a star his envied fortune mounted beaming far and wide: Now he sinks in seas of anguish, whelmed beneath a raging tide.

That all our gathered spoil was reaved and slaughtered, Flocks, herds, and herdmen, by some human hand

Don't let them go begging, abandoned, women without men.

Never bring them down to the level of my pains.

And now that Reason's light returns, New sorrow in his spirit burns.

Pray for life, my children, live where you are free to grow and season

Ath. I will confound his sense although he see.

Time is the great healer, you will see.

Many years have passed since OEDIPUS solved the riddle of the Sphinx and ascended the throne of Thebes, and now a plague has struck the city.

Not I. Only the gods can give you that.

I try to say what I mean; it's my habit.

Se tu hás de governar, soberano nesta terra, Melhor é com homens nela do que deserta regê-la. Uma urbe vazia é nada, tal como nada é navio Ermo de gente, sem tripulação nenhuma.

Still the king, the master of all things? No more: here your power ends.

raging plague in all its vengeance, devastating the house of Cadmus!

Brave hearts do not back down they back off.

No siento yo amor por la que sólo con palabras ama. [...] No mueras tú conmigo ni hagas tuyo un acto en el que no pusiste tu mano.

None of your power follows you through life.

Who could behold his greatness without envy?

Never at my hands will the traitor be honored above the patriot. But whoever proves his loyalty to the state–I'll prize that man in death as well as life.

Tis better not to be than to vilely live. Greedy of gain is every barbarous tribe.