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Sophocles Quotes about Sorrow

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.

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.42, University of Chicago Press