Sophocles Quotes About Sleep

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  • The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.

    Men  
    Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.250, University of Chicago Press
  • Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

    Sophocles, “Chorus From Ajax”
  • Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease.

    Philoctetes 766 (transl. F. Storr)
  • Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

    Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”
  • Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

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Sophocles

  • Born: 498 BC
  • Died: 406 BC
  • Occupation: Playwright