Sophocles Quotes about Sleep

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Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.

Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.

Sophocles

Sleep, Medicine, Giving

Philoctetes 766 (transl. F. Storr)

Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

Sophocles

Suicide, Sleep, Soul

Sophocles, “Chorus From Ajax”

Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

Sophocles

Pain, Sleep, Mind

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”