Quotes About Antigone

#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. 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

#6. 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

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

Jean Anouilh

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

Sophocles

#9. 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

#10. Leave me to my own absurdity.

Sophocles

#11. 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

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

Park Geun-hye

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

Sophocles

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

Thomas Hardy

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

Jean Anouilh

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

Sophocles

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Judith Ortiz Cofer

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

Sophocles

#20. 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

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

Gerald Morris

#22. In school I related to boys.

Chaz Bono

#23. 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

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

Sophocles

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Phillip Adams

#29. 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

#30. 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