Quotes Tagged With :sophocles

Evil gains work their punishment.

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

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

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

OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more....

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

Hail the sun! the brightest of all that everDawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes!Hail the....

TEIRESIAS:I tell you, king, this man, this murderer(whom you have long declared you are in search of,indicting....

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

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