Sophocles ... “Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.”

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“Human beings suffer,
They torture one another,
They get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.

The innocent in gaols
Beat on their bars together.
A hunger-striker's father
Stands in the graveyard dumb.
The police widow in veils
Faints at the funeral home.

History says, don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.

So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracle
And cures and healing wells.

Call miracle self-healing:
The utter, self-revealing
Double-take of feeling.
If there's fire on the mountain
Or lightning and storm
And a god speaks from the sky

That means someone is hearing
The outcry and the birth-cry
Of new life at its term.”
― Sophocles

“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

“The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Wild as you are, all that love you must love you still.”
― Sophocles

“Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.”
― Sophocles

“It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.”
― Sophocles

“The happiest life is to be without thought”
― Sophocles

“Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.”
― Sophocles

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

“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.”
― Sophocles

“No enemy is worse than bad advice.”
― Sophocles

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

“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

“One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.”
― Sophocles

“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”
― Sophocles

“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

“Do not fear for me. Make straight your own path to destiny.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“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

“Which would you choose if you could:
pleasure for yourself despite your friends
or a share in their grief?”
― Sophocles, Ajax

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

“When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day,
Edging slowly back and forth toward death?
Anyone who warms their heart with the glow
Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all.
The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.”
― Sophocles, Unknown Book 9473399

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

“Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Success is dependent on effort.”
― Sophocles

“Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
to speak dishonorably is pardonable.”
― Sophocles

“All my care is you, and all my pleasure yours.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

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

 “[S]ilence supports the accuser’s charge?”
― Sophocles

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

 “If you are out of trouble, watch for danger."

Sophocles”
― Sophocles

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

“Broad-shouldered, brawny men-- Are not the most dependable; it is the clear thinker who succeeds. A big boned ox needs only a small whip to keep him on the straight path.”
― Sophocles, The Ajax

“Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.”
― Sophocles

“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.”
― 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

“Don't kill the messenger.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Those swift to think are not always secure.”
― Sophocles

 “Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.”
― Sophocles

“Far-stretching, endless Time
Brings forth all hidden things,
And buries that which once did shine.
The firm resolve falters, the sacred oath is shattered;
And let none say, "It cannot happen here". ”
― Sophocles

“Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.”
― Sophocles

“The end excuses any evil.”
― Sophocles

“Once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.”
― Sophocles, Philoctetes

“Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“I was born to share love, not hate”, said Antigone. “Go then, and share your love for the dead”, responds Creon.”
― Sophocles

“Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”
― Sophocles

“Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes.
Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes.” ― Sophocles

“Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came”
― Sophocles

“They are dying, the old oracles sent to Laius, now our masters strike them off the rolls. Nowhere Apollo's golden glory now -- the gods, the gods go down.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus the King

“Enough words! The criminals are escaping, we the victims, we stand still.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

“Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.”
― Sophocles

“And if you find I've lied, from this day on call the prophet blind.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“All men make mistakes.”
― Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone

“In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day. ”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

“You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused! Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness-blind!”
― Sophocles, The Complete Plays Of Sophocles

“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”
― Sophocles

“That will come when it comes; we must deal with all that lies before us. The future rests with the ones who tend the future.”
― Sophocles

“Of all vile things current on earth, none is so vile as money.”
― Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone

“To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.”
― Sophocles

“Another husband could be found and with That husband another son. But I have no mother now. I have no father. I cannot bring another brother to the world.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

 “What is God singing in his profound Delphi of gold and shadow?”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex