Sophocles Antigone Quotes & Sayings

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

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when. — Bill Keller

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

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

I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction. — Kenneth Adelman

What greater wound is there than a false friend? — 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

What I am trying to say is that Jesus who incarnated God 2,000 years ago is mystically present and waiting to be discovered in EVERY person you and I encounter — Tony Campolo

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong. — Sophocles

I am trying to embrace more of my femininity. I need to wear more pastels and put my hair down! — Serinda Swan

Sometimes life asks us to make more serious choices than whether or not to believe a fairy tale — Chrystal Vaughan

Talking with this girl is like trying to catch fleas, you never know which way she was going to jump. — Ruth Downie

We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. — Teresa Of Avila

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

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again. — Alvin Toffler

An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing. — Kay Redfield Jamison

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

Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard. — Hanna Rosin

Different brands are indeed different, and that's the challenge of developing recipes for a cooker. But just like anything, you have to be flexible. — Michele Scicolone

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

How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks. — Hortense Calisher

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