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“Weep not, everything must have its day.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil
but if some god shakes your house
ruin arrives
ruin does not leave
it comes tolling over the generations
it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor
and all your thrashed coasts groan”
― Anne Carson, Antigonick

“Whose tale more sad than thine, whose lot more dire? O Oedipus, discrowned head, Thy cradle was thy marriage bed.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“One word frees us all the weight and pain of life:
That word is Love.

-Sophocles”
― Anne Gracie, The Perfect Rake

“CHORUS:
You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!
Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain.”
― Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies

“King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“TEIRESIAS:
I tell you, king, this man, this murderer
(whom you have long declared you are in search of,
indicting him in threatening proclamation
as murderer of Laius)- he is here.
In name he is a stranger among citizens
but soon he will be shown to be a citizen
true native Theban, and he'll have no joy
of the discovery: blindness for sight
and beggary for riches his exchange,
he shall go journeying to a foreign country
tapping his way before him with a stick.
He shall be proved father and brother both
to his own children in his house; to her
that gave him birth, a son and husband both;
a fellow sower in his father's bed
with that same father that he murdered.
Go within, reckon that out, and if you find me
mistaken, say I have no skill in prophecy.”
― Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies

“By God, I'll have more booty in a moment.”
― Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

“Closer,
it’s all right. Touch the man of grief.
Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine
and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“OEDIPUS:
Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-
whether he is one man and all unknown,
or one of many- may he wear out his life
in misery to miserable doom!
If with my knowledge he lives at my hearth
I pray that I myself may feel my curse.
On you I lay my charge to fulfill all this
for me, for the God, and for this land of ours destroyed and blighted, by the God forsaken.”
― Sophocles, The Complete Greek Tragedies

“The dead alone can feel no touch of spite.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

“Death the deliverer freeth all at last.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

“In his den the monster keep, Giver of eternal sleep.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

“Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Remember: women may not be too weak
To strike a blow.
-Sophocles, Electra”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“Thou seek'st to part us, wrapping in soft words Hard thoughts.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Tis better not to be than to vilely live."

"Greedy of gain is every barbarous tribe.”
― Sophocles, Fragments

“Evil gains work their punishment.”
― Sophocles, Fragments

“Like it or not, after Freud, no one had to read Sophocles to know something about Oedipus.”
― Paul Aron, Unsolved Mysteries of History: An Eye-Opening Investigation Into the Most Baffling Events of All Time

“Bu durumda dostlarım, ne akıllı ne dindar olmak mümkündür; kötülüğün içinde bizi kötülüğe zorlayan güç çok büyüktür.”
― Sophocles, Electra