Quotes About Sophocles

Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want.

Sophocles' plays, performed in amphitheaters, were the equivalent of today's megachurches, where customs and values were clarified and conveyed.

How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does love suit with age, Sophocles,—are you still the man you were? Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Sophocles long agoHeard it on the Aegean.

Der Demokrat erstarrt, wenn er von der ungewöhnlichen Koalition Kenntnis erhält, die ihn bedroht, wenn er entdeckt, daß die Klassik des Sophokles sich mit der Romantik Kierkegaards verbündet hat, um ihn zu verurteilen. Wenn er bei diesem Unterfangen den bischöflichen Pomp Bossuets mit dem dionysischen Atheismus Nietzsches paktieren sieht.

Like it or not, after Freud, no one had to read Sophocles to know something about Oedipus.