From Antigone Quotes

#1. 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

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

Sophocles

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

Sophocles

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

Sophocles

#5. It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

Jean Anouilh

#6. How come Kony gets a viral video made about him and i don't

Robert Mugabe

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

Sophocles

#8. Leave me to my own absurdity.

Sophocles

#9. Sophokles is a playwright fascinated in general by people who say no, people who resist compromise, people who make stumbling blocks of themselves, like Antigone or Ajax.

Aeschylus

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

Sophocles

#11. Anything can happen, Pet. If there's one thing for certain, it's that nothing is for certain.

Joshua Edward Smith

#12. As Antigone said, I am neither a dweller among men nor ghosts.

Thomas Hardy

#13. Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Jean Anouilh

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

Sophocles

#15. Mourning suits us Spanish women.
Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe
we are bred for the part.

Judith Ortiz Cofer

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

Sophocles

#17. I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone. . . . For me, they're more alive than the [Institute for] Intellectual Cooperation and its choice group of old men.

Gabriella Mistral

#18. Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!

Gerald Morris

#19. You have to look backward to see the future, he often said to his residents.
stated by Dr Najjar. So true in many settings

Susannah Cahalan

#20. I am not a playwright. A playwright would take Antigone and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.

Seamus Heaney

#21. Form is burden. Sometimes being part of the system enslaves the mind and greatly limits the imagination by enslaving it to form. Form is a burden to the mind that sees no limits. Form is a prison for the soul who sees possibilities outside the lines and wishes to test them.

Suzy Kassem

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

Sophocles

#23. They found it hard to imagine the smog-choked cities of the Twentieth Century, and the waste, greed, and appalling environmental disasters of the Oil Age.

Arthur C. Clarke

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

Joseph Joubert

#27. I surround myself with authentic and loving people who share my journey of personal growth and awakening.

Cheryl Richardson

#28. I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don't really exist in cinema now. The only person who's really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier.

Alice Lowe

#29. Lacey-girl, books take you anywhere. Any place you want to go. You remember that always.

Carol Lynch Williams