Sophocles Quotes
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.
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I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
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[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
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Lack of knowledge is the
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When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
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My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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And we call upon others to join us on the right side of history - for while small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.
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I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.
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It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.
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I don't want to be a Hollywood star. I just want to do my job and enjoy it. My aim is to find my true identity and to remain true to myself.
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In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world (we see that Christ withdrew when the people wanted to proclaim him king as well as when he had to walk the thorny path), for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about. Here, of course, individuality is very decisive.
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To revive sorrow is cruel.
