Quotes About Antigone

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Judith Ortiz Cofer

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

Sophocles

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

Thomas Hardy

#11. Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Phillip Adams

#12. BELINDA:Your children are a pain in the neck...
MASSIMO: They are mine when they misbehave -
BELINDA: Which is always.
MASSIMO: And yours when they behave like angels.
BELINDA: I'll be old by the time that happens.

Billy London

#13. I think this is the essence of life: to be willing circle back, to fall in deeper, to relearn what I thought I already knew.

Anna White

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

Sophocles

#15. In school I related to boys.

Chaz Bono

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

Gerald Morris

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

Sophocles

#18. I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Jean Anouilh

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

Sophocles

#21. In the 21st century, culture is power.

Park Geun-hye

#22. Leave me to my own absurdity.

Sophocles

#23. I am the proud indentured servant of a brilliant art adviser who may or may not have purposely stapled my index finger to a manila folder

Sloane Crosley

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

Sophocles

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

Jean Anouilh

#26. To see in the past that very godly people were able to maintain bizarre interpretations of Scripture should be a caution for us all.

Mark A. Noll

#27. Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.

Roman Dmowski

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

Sophocles

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

Sophocles

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

Sophocles