Sophocles > Quotes

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

“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.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
― Sophocles

“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.”
― Sophocles

“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
― Sophocles

“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Time, which sees all things, has found you out.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.”
― Sophocles

“How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.”
― Sophocles

“Leave me to my own absurdity.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.”
― Sophocles, Electra

“I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

“A city which belongs to just one man is no true city”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“To Never Have been born may be the greatest boon of all”
― Sophocles