Sophocles Quotes about Sorrow
To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
"Antigone". 1251,
"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