Quotes & Sayings About Antigone By Sophocles

Leave me to my own absurdity. — Sophocles

I was born to share love, not hate", said Antigone. "Go then, and share your love for the dead", responds Creon. — Sophocles

What woe is lacking to my tale of woes? — Sophocles

It is my nature to join in love, not hate. — Sophocles

What greater wound is there than a false friend? — Sophocles

The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes. — Sophocles

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life — Sophocles

ANTIGONE Yea, for these laws were not ordained of Zeus, And she who sits enthroned with gods below, Justice, enacted not these human laws. Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man, Could'st by a breath annul and override The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven. They were not born today nor yesterday; They die not; and none knoweth whence they sprang. I was not like, who feared no mortal's frown, To disobey these laws and so provoke The wrath of Heaven. I knew that I must die, E'en hadst thou not proclaimed it; and if death Is thereby hastened, I shall count it gain. For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, Is full of misery. Thus my lot appears Not sad, but blissful; for had I endured To leave my mother's son unburied there, I should have grieved with reason, but not now. And if in this thou judgest me a fool, Methinks the judge of folly's not acquit. — Sophocles

Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer; — Sophocles

Upon that foreign soil he chose
Died he! For ever laid
Low, in the kindly shade,
He left behind no tearless grief,
No measured mourning, dull and brief,
These eyes are wet
With weeping yet,
Nor know I how to find relief."

Antigone — Sophocles

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong. — Sophocles