Sophocles, Fr. 13 (Ajax the Locrian; Stobaeus, Anth. 4, 43, 52)

“Man is only breath and shadow.”

ἄνθρωπός ἐστι πνεῦμα καὶ σκιὰ μόνον

Sophocles is always this light-hearted and uplifting, right?

(Too bad we don’t have some of his Satyr-plays.)