Quotes Tagged With :sophocles

CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and....

There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone."....

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does....

May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ismene

OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many-....

I am determined that never, if I can help it,Shall evil triumph over good." - Creon

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief.Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am....

TEIRESIAS:You have your eyes but see not where you arein sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.Do....

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.