Sophocles God Quotes & Sayings

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity. — Eric Maisel

Reason is God's crowning gift to a man... — Sophocles

They knew what forgiveness was; they were willing to take him for better or worse; they loved him. — Richard Yates

Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are right
To warn me against losing mine. I cannot say
I hope that I shall never want to say! - that you
Have reasoned badly. Yet there are other men
Who can reason, too; and their opinions might be helpful.
You are not in a position to know everything
That people say or do, or what they feel:
Your temper terrifies them - everyone
Will tell you only what you like to hear. — Sophocles

God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury. — Sophocles

For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness. — Sophocles

Thy life is safe while any god saves mine. — Sophocles

Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God. — Sophocles

In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place that this wherefrom it can illuminate everything at the same time? As a matter of fact, not unhappily do some call it the lantern; others, the mind and still others, the pilot of the world. Trismegistus calls it a "visible God"; Sophocles' Electra, "that which gazes upon all things." And so the sun, as if resting on a kingly throne, governs the family of stars which wheel around. — Nicolaus Copernicus

Your edict, King, was strong,
But all your strength is weakness itself against
The immortal unrecorded laws of God.
They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,
Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.
I knew I must die, even without your decree:
I am only mortal. And if I must die
Now, before it is my time to die,
Surely this is no hardship: can anyone
Living, as I live, with evil all about me,
Think Death less than a friend? — Sophocles

What is God singing in his profound Delphi of gold and shadow? — Sophocles

OEDIPUS:
Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-
whether he is one man and all unknown,
or one of many- may he wear out his life
in misery to miserable doom!
If with my knowledge he lives at my hearth
I pray that I myself may feel my curse.
On you I lay my charge to fulfill all this
for me, for the God, and for this land of ours destroyed and blighted, by the God forsaken. — Sophocles

By God, I'll have more booty in a moment. — Sophocles

God's dice always have a lucky roll. — Sophocles

Compassion limits even the power of God. — Sophocles

JOCASTA:
So clear in this case were the oracles,
so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;
what God discovers need of, easily
he shows to us himself. — Sophocles

Reason is God's crowning gift to man. — Sophocles

The gods love those of ordered soul. — Sophocles

You'll never find a man on Earth, if a god leads him on, who can escape his fate. — Sophocles

The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman? — Louis L'Amour

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I've always felt that one of the mistakes people make is that they try to do something that is just slightly beyond their skill set, and then feel they've failed. — Nora Ephron

Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked. — Sophocles

But when a god strikes harm, a worse man often foils his better. — Sophocles

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil
but if some god shakes your house
ruin arrives
ruin does not leave
it comes tolling over the generations
it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor
and all your thrashed coasts groan — Anne Carson

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues. — Sophocles

he came to know the god intimately and the strange mad flower of his mind dripped in the dark — Sophocles

Sentry: King, may I speak?
Creon: Your very voice distresses me.
Sentry: Are you sure that it is my voice, and not your conscience?
Creon: By God, he wants to analyze me now!
Sentry: It is not what I say, but what has been done, that hurts you.
Creon: You talk too much. — Sophocles

Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't, we're afraid!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," he said.
"We can't, We will fall!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," he said.
And so they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew. — Guillaume Apollinaire

Time is a kindly God. — Sophocles

There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death
who knows?
may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better late than never, what a waste of breath it is to worship Death. — Sophocles

Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage. — Sophocles

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