Quotes from Sophocles

What superhuman power drove you on? OEDIPUS: Apollo, friends, Apollo— he ordained my agonies—these, my pains on pains!

But the hand that struck my eyes was mine, mine atone—no one else— I did it all myself! What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy.

The future rests with the ones who tend the future.

What love, what call of the heart can touch my ears with joy? Nothing, friends.

cast me away, my friends— this great murderous ruin, this man cursed to heaven, the man the deathless gods hate most of all!

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Pitiful, you suffer so, you understand so much ... I wish you had never known.

If I'd died then, I'd never have dragged myself, my loved ones through such hell.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

What grief can crown this grief? It's mine alone, my destiny—I am Oedipus!

I, with my eyes, how could I look my father in the eyes when I go down to death?

Worse yet, the sight of my children, born as they were born, how could I long to look into their eyes?

All men must cast away the great blasphemer, the curse now brought to light by the gods, the son of Laius—I, my father's son!

I'd wall up my loathsome body like a prison, blind to the sound of life, not just the sight.

Oblivion—what a blessing ... for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.

Beni b?rak?n, b?rak?n, teselliye ihtiyac?m yok, zira ?st?rab?m?n düÄŸümleri çözülmez, ?st?raplar?m?n sonu yoktur, inlemelerim öylesine sonsuz.

Time, seeing all things, has found You out as you did not foresee.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

OEDIPUS: If all such violence goes with honor now Why join the sacred dance.

This Dover edition, first published in 2006, contains the unabridged republication of the plays Oedipus. Tyrannus, Oedipus. Coloneus, and Antigone from the volume The Dramas of Sophocles Rendered in English Verse Dramatic (5 Lyric by Sir George Young, as published by J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., London, in 1906.

Apenas quero declarar que, sem saber, 435 manténs as relações mais torpes e sacrílegas com a criatura que devias venerar, alheio à sordidez de tua própria vida!

até o dia fatal de cerrarmos os olhos não devemos dizer que um mortal foi feliz de verdade antes de ele cruzar as fronteiras da vida inconstante sem jamais ter provado o sabor de qualquer sofrimento!

ANTIGONE: Nevertheless, there are honors due all the dead. CREON: But not the same for the wicked as for the just. ANTIGONE: Ah Creon, Which of us can say what the gods hold wicked? CREON: An enemy is an enemy, even dead. ANTIGONE: It is may nature to join in love, not hate.

shorn of everything—you're their only hope.