Top 4 Antigone Death Quotes
#1. Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer;
Sophocles
#2. The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.
Sophocles
#3. The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly doing her duty to another human being despite all threats, and going to her death with pride and courage, not deterred by any hope - Antigone.
Walter Kaufmann
#4. Antigone: We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us.
Ismene: Who said that?
Antigone: Hegel.
Ismene: Sounds more like Beckett.
Antigone: He was paraphrasing Hegel.
Ismene: I don't think so.
Anne Carson
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