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"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."
"Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say."
"She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror."
"For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day."
"Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?"
"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
Explore more quotes by Sophocles
"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."
"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."
"Alas, how terrible is wisdomwhen it brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it,else I would not have come here."
"Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him."
"I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours."
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