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Sophocles quotes about death

Greek Poet December 30, 0495 – December 30, 0405

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Sophocles quote: "Not even old age knows how to love death."
Not even old age knows how to love death. Sophocles
Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain. Sophocles
TEIRESIAS: You have your eyes but see not where you arein sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with. Do you know who your parents are? Unknowingyou are enemy to kith and kinin death, beneath the earth, and in this life. Sophocles
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
Sophocles quote: "Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die..."
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot. Sophocles
Sophocles quote: "For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone..."
For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night. Sophocles
Sophocles quote: "Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves..."
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. Sophocles
Sophocles quote: "For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is..."
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. Sophocles

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