Charles Smith’s Reviews > Sophocles I: The Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus > Status Update

"the feather follies of his youth once over, what trouble is beyond the range of man? what heavy burden will he not endure? jealousy, faction, quarreling, and battle — the bloodiness of war, the grief of war. and in the end he comes to strengthless age, abhorred by all men, without company, unfriendly in that uttermost twilight where he must live with every bitter thing"