Top 25 Quotes About Oedipus Rex

#1. The wheel turns. Blue above, green below, we wander a long way, but love is what the cup of our soul contains when we leave the world and the flesh.

Louise Murphy

#2. Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In this sense it is the very essence of philosophy and science.

Joseph Alexander Leighton

#3. I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

Louis Bacon

#4. Whose tale more sad than thine, whose lot more dire? O Oedipus, discrowned head, Thy cradle was thy marriage bed.

Sophocles

#5. When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.

Matt Dillon

#6. Jesus wants to see a smile on your face!

Paul Silway

#7. Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

Tom Robbins

#8. The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.

John Abercrombie

#9. How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth.

Sophocles

#10. Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

Sophocles

#11. Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words.

Sophocles

#12. Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated.

Steve Coogan

#13. tits. He couldn't handle himself any longer and he put his

Allison Hardy

#14. Manson didn't 'kill the sixties', as some have suggested. They committed suicide, ODed on excess, high expectations, and a belief that in getting rid of all repression - what I've called 'giving way to strange forces' - some pure, natural soul would emerge. They were wrong.

Gary Lachman

#15. There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.

Shimon Attie

#16. Weep not, everything must have its day.

Sophocles

#17. My mother has only just got over the fact that I will never play Shrek's sister - because of the Scottish accent, she thought I'd be perfect.

Ashley Jensen

#18. King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.

Sophocles

#19. The pattern of our lives is essentially circular. We must be open to all points of the compass; husband, children, friends, home, community; stretched out, exposed, sensitive like a spider's web to each breeze that blows, to each call that comes.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#20. Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

Sylvia Earle

#21. The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

Arthur Miller

#22. We can stop waiting for life to become perfect and start working with what we've got to make it as satisfying as we can. We can accept, bless, give thanks, and get going. Today, we can begin to call forth the riches from our everyday life. Today we can move from lack to abundance.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#23. Time alone can bring the just man to light - the criminal you can spot in just one short day.

Sophocles

#24. Closer,
it's all right. Touch the man of grief.
Do. Don't be afraid. My troubles are mine
and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.

Sophocles

#25. If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

Graham Hancock

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