Sophocles: Quotes about love

Sophocles was ancient Greek tragedian. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Sophocles: 136 quotes8 likes

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”

Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus

Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18

“Love, unconquerable,
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,
And mortal man, in his one day's dusk,
Trembles before your glory.”

Source: Antigone, Line 781 (Ode III)

“Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.”

Source: Antigone, Lines 311-314

“No man loves life like him that's growing old.”

Acrisius, fragment 64.

“They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.”

Sophocles Trachiniae

Source: Trachiniae, Line 441.

“War loves to seek its victims in the young.”

Scyrii, Frag. 507.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)