“But when a god sends harm, no man can sidestep it, no matter how strong he may be.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“No pity for these things, there is no pity but mine, oh father, for the pity of your butchering rawblood death.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Orestes beloved. as you die you destroy me. You have torn away the part of my mind where hope was .” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Never since that time has this house got itself clear of rawblood butchery.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“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… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“JOCASTA: So clear in this case were the oracles, so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say; what God discovers… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird, When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone." - Sentry” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Hail the sun! the brightest of all that ever Dawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes! Hail the golden… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief. Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“May the dead forgive me, I can do no other But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene,… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“TEIRESIAS: You have your eyes but see not where you are in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater. That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes, Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“ELECTRA: Oh but my love—now that you have travelled back down all those years to meet my heart, over all this grief… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“None but a fool or an infant could forget a father gone so far and cold. No. Lament is a pattern cut… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“By dread things I am compelled. I know that. I see the trap closing. I know what I am. But while life… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse- whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“OEDIPUS: O, O, O, they will all come, all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me look upon you no… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“TEIRESIAS: I tell you, king, this man, this murderer (whom you have long declared you are in search of, indicting him in… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I am determined that never, if I can help it, Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“There is no more deadly peril than disobedience; States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins, Armies defeated, victory turned to… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“CHORUS: You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
