Sophocles Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

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

3. I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature. Antigone

4. One wordFrees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love.

5. Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo? Antigone

6. The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength Oedipus Rex

7. A lie never grows old. White Lies

8. Alas, how terrible is wisdomwhen 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. Oedipus Rex

9. All things the long and countless years first draw from darkness, then bury from light; and there is nothing for which man may not look. The dreaded oath is vanquished, and the stubborn will. The Ajax of Sophocles

10. Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

11. One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

12. Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo? Antigone

13. Those swift to think are not always secure.

14. What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tastedA bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day,Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once weHave passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen.Death is the end of all.Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylightAnd be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second. Oedipus at Colonus

15. Ein Wort befreit uns von allem Gewicht und Schmerz im Leben, dieses Wort ist Liebe. One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.