Sophocles Quotes about Fate

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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

Sophocles

Fate, Blame, Knows

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Sophocles

Pain, Fate, Evil

Sophocles, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro (2010). “The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays”, p.40, Oxford University Press on Demand

It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.

Sophocles

Happiness, Fate, Giving

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

Sophocles

War, Fate, Ships

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.56, University of Chicago Press

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

Sophocles

Fate, Evil, Enemy