Antigone Quotes

“For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, Is full of misery.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:life death misery

“For e'en the bravest spirits run away When they perceive death pressing on life's heels.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:death courage

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

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:death

“Of happiness the chiefest part is a wise heart: And to defraud the gods in aught with peril's fraught.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:happiness heart wisdom

“Didst hear and heed, Or art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:friendship

“Who did the deed the under-world knows well: A friend in word is never friend of mine.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:friendship

“Chastisement for errors past Wisdom brings to age at last.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:wisdom age

“Yea, so it falls, sire, when misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:wisdom

“Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:wisdom madness

“To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

topic:wisdom

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