“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”

— Sophocles, Electra, lines 1007-1008, Bartlett's, 9th ed., 1892

About Sophocles

497 BC – 406 BC

Greek tragedian, author of "Oedipus Rex" and "Antigone".

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

“Kindness begets kindness evermore.”

“For a day can humble all human beings, and a day can lift them up.”

“Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.”

“Every man's death is, literally, the end of a world if he dies without hope.”

“Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or woman lost?”

“Anyone who is among the living has hope--even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!”

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.”

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”