Sophocles Quotes About Grief

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  • Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

    Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.307, Penguin
  • One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

  • If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

    "Scyrii". Play by Sophocles, fragment 510. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
  • Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.

    Sophocles (2006). “The Complete Plays of Sophocles”, p.92, Bantam Classics
  • Gentle time will heal our sorrows.

  • Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

    Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”
  • Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.

    Men  
  • The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

    Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt
  • Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

    Pain  
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Sophocles

  • Born: 498 BC
  • Died: 406 BC
  • Occupation: Playwright