Sophocles Quotes
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“Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.”
― Electra
― Electra
“Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?”
― Electra
― Electra
“ORESTES: Just to see the outline of your suffering
ELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see.”
― Electra
ELECTRA: Yet this is only a fraction of it you see.”
― Electra
“Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“By dread things I am compelled. I know that. I see the trap closing. I know what I am. But while life is in me I will not stop this violence. No. Oh my friends who is there to comfort me? Who understands? Leave me be, let me go, do not soothe me. This is a knot no one can untie. There will be no rest, there is no retrieval. No number exists for griefs like these.”
― Electra
― Electra
“What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tasted
A bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day,
Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once we
Have passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen.
Death is the end of all.
Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylight
And be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.”
― Oedipus at Colonus
A bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day,
Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once we
Have passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen.
Death is the end of all.
Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylight
And be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.”
― Oedipus at Colonus
“Think again, Electra. Don't say anymore. Don't you see what you're doing? You make your own pain. Why keep wounding yourself? With so much evil stored up in that cold dark soul of yours you breed enemies everywhere you touch.”
― Electra
― Electra
“Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.”
― Electra
― Electra
“TEIRESIAS:
You have your eyes but see not where you are
in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.
Do you know who your parents are? Unknowing
you are enemy to kith and kin
in death, beneath the earth, and in this life.”
― The Complete Greek Tragedies
You have your eyes but see not where you are
in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.
Do you know who your parents are? Unknowing
you are enemy to kith and kin
in death, beneath the earth, and in this life.”
― The Complete Greek Tragedies
“ELECTRA: Oh but my love—now that you have travelled back down all those years to meet my heart, over all this grief of mine, do not oh love—
ORESTES: What are you asking?
ELECTRA: Do not turn your face from me. Don't take yourself away.”
― Electra
ORESTES: What are you asking?
ELECTRA: Do not turn your face from me. Don't take yourself away.”
― Electra
“Orestes beloved. as you die you destroy me. You have torn away the part of my mind where hope was .”
― Electra
― Electra
“Yes I know sorrow. Know it far too well. My life is a tunnel choked by the sweepings of dread.”
― Electra
― Electra
“Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, Hermann Göring about the Reichstag fire? Why don’t Sophocles, Democritus, and Aristarchus dictate their lost books?”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“JOCASTA:
So clear in this case were the oracles,
so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;
what God discovers need of, easily
he shows to us himself.”
― The Complete Greek Tragedies
So clear in this case were the oracles,
so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;
what God discovers need of, easily
he shows to us himself.”
― The Complete Greek Tragedies
“OEDIPUS:
O, O, O, they will all come,
all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me
look upon you no more after today!
I who first saw the light bred of a match
accursed, and accursed in my living
with them I lived with, cursed in my killing.”
― The Complete Greek Tragedies
O, O, O, they will all come,
all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me
look upon you no more after today!
I who first saw the light bred of a match
accursed, and accursed in my living
with them I lived with, cursed in my killing.”
― The Complete Greek Tragedies
“Τοσαῦτά σ', ὦ Ζεῦ, προστρέπω· καλῶ δ' ἅμα
πομπαῖον Ἑρμῆν χθόνιον εὖ με κοιμίσαι,
ξὺν ἀσφαδάστῳ καὶ ταχεῖ πηδήματι.”
―
πομπαῖον Ἑρμῆν χθόνιον εὖ με κοιμίσαι,
ξὺν ἀσφαδάστῳ καὶ ταχεῖ πηδήματι.”
―
“This is where we keep the volumes which my ancestors brought back from Greece. One hundred and twenty plays by Sophocles alone. They are irreplaceable. We have never allowed them to be copied.” She gripped his arm. “Men are born to die and die by the thousand every day. What do we matter? These great works are all that will be left of us. Pliny will understand.”
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