Antigone Sophocles Quotes

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

Sophocles

#2. I broke with my religion in college.

Anne Rice

#3. The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

Len Wein

#4. Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'

Tommy Lee

#5. What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?

Sophocles

#6. Sometimes the truth doesn't set you free, Jules. Sometimes it cages you.

Gwenda Bond

#7. You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

John Kricfalusi

#8. Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

Samuel Butler

#9. People forget what a big issue toilet training is for adults and kids, and it is not fun, especially when you're in a car on the interstate.

Robert Munsch

#10. It is my nature to join in love, not hate.

Sophocles

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

Sophocles

#12. I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

Jimmy Nail

#13. 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

#14. In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

Randy Wayne

#15. Leave me to my own absurdity.

Sophocles

#16. I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life

Sophocles

#17. One goal of law - as we learn in law school from the first day of contracts - is to deter bad behavior.

Marvin Ammori

#18. Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

Keith Richards

#19. We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.

Charlie Munger

#20. Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer;

Sophocles

#21. What greater wound is there than a false friend?

Sophocles

#22. When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to school - but I started at 'Newsweek' magazine in 1963, which was before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So it was actually legal to discriminate against women, and 'Newsweek' did.

Ellen Goodman

#23. My goal in life is to become an adjective," Leonard said. "People would go around saying, 'That was so Bankheadian.' Or, 'A little too Bankheadian for my taste.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#24. Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.

Sophocles