Sophocles Quotes About Fate
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Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.
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Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
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Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.
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