Top 500 Sophocles Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Wild as you are, all that love you must love you still.”

— Sophocles

152. “The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

158. “Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”

— Sophocles

159. “I am at the end. I exist no more.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

165. “Obedience to authority saves many skins.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

168. “A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

173. “In season, all is good.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

176. “Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.”

— Sophocles

177. “Thou shalt not ration justice.”

— Sophocles

178. “Not even Ares battles against necessity.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

180. “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

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

183. “It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

186. “To revive sorrow is cruel.”

— Sophocles

187. “How dangerous can false reasoning prove!”

— Sophocles

188. “Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

190. “Be a thrifty steward of thy goods.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

197. “Fortune never helps the fainthearted.”

— Sophocles

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

— Sophocles

199. “Opportunity has power over all things.”

— Sophocles

200. “The most powerful man in nothing without self-control and mental discipline.”

— Sophocles