Top 500 Sophocles Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”

— Sophocles

152. “Nothing great enters the life of mortals without a curse.”

— Sophocles

153. “Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.”

— Sophocles

154. “The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.”

— Sophocles

155. “You’re dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream.”

— Sophocles

156. “Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.”

— Sophocles

157. “You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.”

— Sophocles

158. “You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.”

— Sophocles

159. “Obedience to authority saves many skins.”

— Sophocles

160. “Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.”

— Sophocles

161. “Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”

— Sophocles

162. “If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.”

— Sophocles

163. “Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.”

— Sophocles

164. “In season, all is good.”

— Sophocles

165. “A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.”

— Sophocles

166. “In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.”

— Sophocles

167. “He has the thousand-yard stare.”

— Sophocles

168. “Thou shalt not ration justice.”

— Sophocles

169. “I know that you are deathly sick; and yet, sick as you are, not one is as sick as I.”

— Sophocles

170. “Not even Ares battles against necessity.”

— Sophocles

171. “Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.”

— Sophocles

172. “Therefore, while our eyes wait to see the destined final day, we must call no one happy who is of mortal race, until he has crossed life’s border, free from pain.”

— Sophocles

173. “Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.”

— Sophocles

174. “There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.”

— Sophocles

175. “Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.”

— Sophocles

176. “When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.”

— Sophocles

177. “To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.”

— Sophocles

178. “In a just cause it is right to be confident.”

— Sophocles

179. “To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!”

— Sophocles

180. “No honest man will argue on every side.”

— Sophocles

181. “To revive sorrow is cruel.”

— Sophocles

182. “How dangerous can false reasoning prove!”

— Sophocles

183. “There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.”

— Sophocles

184. “As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!”

— Sophocles

185. “Death the deliverer freeth all at last.”

— Sophocles

186. “There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.”

— Sophocles

187. “The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.”

— Sophocles

188. “True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills.”

— Sophocles

189. “Fortune never helps the fainthearted.”

— Sophocles

190. “The gods love those of ordered soul.”

— Sophocles

191. “Time is the great healer, you will see.”

— Sophocles

192. “Opportunity has power over all things.”

— Sophocles

193. “Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.”

— Sophocles

194. “I’ve never known an honest man who can plead so well for any plea whatever.”

— Sophocles

195. “The truth with all its power lives inside me.”

— Sophocles

196. “Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father’s.”

— Sophocles

197. “Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.”

— Sophocles

198. “Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day’s dusk, Trembles before your glory.”

— Sophocles

199. “In his autumn before the winter comes mans last mad surge of youth.”

— Sophocles

200. “Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.”

— Sophocles