"One word frees us of all
the weight and pain of life:
That word is love. "
— Sophocles

"One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been."
— Sophocles

"How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth."
— Sophocles (Oedipus Rex)

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
— Sophocles

"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

"Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
"
— Sophocles (Electra)

""Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.""
— Sophocles

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth.


"
— Sophocles

"You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea."
— Sophocles

""Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.""
— Sophocles (Antigone)

"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
— Sophocles (Antigone)

"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms."
— Sophocles

"It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong."
— Sophocles

"Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
"
— Sophocles (Antigone)

""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 truth is what I cherish and that's my strength
"
— Sophocles (Oedipus Rex)

"How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth.
"
— Sophocles

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

""Wild as you are, all that love you must love you still.""
— Sophocles

"Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man"
— Sophocles (Antigone)

"Success is dependent on effort."
— Sophocles

"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)

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

"To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away"
— Sophocles (Oedipus Rex)

"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)

"Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life."
— Sophocles

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

"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)

"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

"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

"The happiest life is to be without thought"
— Sophocles

"Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war."
— Sophocles

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

""The end excuses any evil." "
— Sophocles

"What is God singing in his profound Delphi of gold and shadow?"
— Sophocles (Oedipus Rex)

"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)