The Oedipus Cycle Quotes

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“So,
when I am nothing—then am I a man?”
― The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
when I am nothing—then am I a man?”
― The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“Look through all humanity: you’ll never find
a man on earth, if a god leads him on,
who can escape his fate.”
― The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
a man on earth, if a god leads him on,
who can escape his fate.”
― The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“Acceptance—that is the great lesson suffering teaches,”
― The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
― The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“I only ask to live, with pure faith keeping
In word and deed that Law which leaps the sky,
Made of no mortal mould, undimmed, unsleeping
Whose living godhead does not age or die.”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
In word and deed that Law which leaps the sky,
Made of no mortal mould, undimmed, unsleeping
Whose living godhead does not age or die.”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“just thinking of all your days to come, the bitterness,
the life that rough mankind will thrust upon you.”
― The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
the life that rough mankind will thrust upon you.”
― The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“Blind,
lost in the night, endless night that nursed you!”
― The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
lost in the night, endless night that nursed you!”
― The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
“Though he has watched a decent age pass by,
A man will sometimes still desire the world.
I swear I see no wisdom in that man.
The endless hours pile up a drift of pain
More unrelieved each day; and as for pleasure,
When he is sunken in excessive age,
You will not see his pleasure anywhere.
- Choral Poem between Scenes V & VI, Oedipus at Colonus”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
A man will sometimes still desire the world.
I swear I see no wisdom in that man.
The endless hours pile up a drift of pain
More unrelieved each day; and as for pleasure,
When he is sunken in excessive age,
You will not see his pleasure anywhere.
- Choral Poem between Scenes V & VI, Oedipus at Colonus”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“چون عمری دراز بگذرد، با فزونی سالهای بسیار، رنج به افزون و شادی به نقصان است. و به فرجام چون مرگ بیمنادی هیچ نوایی، رقصی یا آوازی فرارسد، تا ما را آرامشی بخشد؛ رهایی همگان یکسان است.”
― The Three Theban Plays
― The Three Theban Plays
“در اعماق آرزو جوانه میزند. انسان از شعلههایش گرم میشود. و اگر کامی بردارد، از اخگرهای سوزانش، میسوزد.”
― The Theban Plays
― The Theban Plays
“خرد را به درجات به همگان بخشیدهاند. کسی را نمیتوان نکوهش کرد، مگر استوار گردد که سزاوار آن است. زمانه آموزگار این حقیقت است، زیرا تنها زمان است که میتواند راستان را بنماید و روزی نادرستان را برملا سازد.”
― The Theban Plays
― The Theban Plays
“تبار راهبان آزمند پول است، و تبار مستبدان آزمند، تاراج.”
― The Theban Plays
― The Theban Plays
“انسان باید همیشه فرجام را بنگرد و هیچکس را نمیتوان سعادتمند دانست مگر آنگاهکه قرین سعادت در گور بیارامد.”
― The Theban Plays
― The Theban Plays
“Alas for the seed of man.”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“Of evils current upon earth The worst is money. Money 'tis that sacks Cities, and drives men forth from hearth and home; Warps and seduces native innocence, And breeds a habit of dishonesty.”
― Oedipus Trilogy
― Oedipus Trilogy
“And remember that the captor is now the captive; the hunter is in the snare. What was won by stealth will not be kept.”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“Time alone can bring the just man to light - the criminal you can spot in just one short day.”
― The Theban Plays
― The Theban Plays
“من المحتم علينا نحن البشر أن نتحمل ما ترسله إلنا الآلهة من أقدار.
ولكنكل من يدامون على الخضوع لمعاناتهم مثلك، هؤلاء لن يشعر أحد بالشفقة تجاههم، أو ييجد لهم عذراً.”
― فيلوكتيتس
ولكنكل من يدامون على الخضوع لمعاناتهم مثلك، هؤلاء لن يشعر أحد بالشفقة تجاههم، أو ييجد لهم عذراً.”
― فيلوكتيتس
“فإن المرء، عندما تتاح له الفرصة ويضع في حسبانه جميع الأمور، يمكنه أن يحرز الانتصار.”
― فيلوكتيتس
― فيلوكتيتس
“Yea, Oedipus, my sovereign lord and king,”
― The Oedipus Plays
― The Oedipus Plays
“My sisters, you, his daughters!
Now that you’ve heard our father’s iron curses,
I implore you in the name of the gods,
if father’s curses all come true at last,
and if some way back to Thebes is found for you,
don’t neglect me, please, give me burial,
the honored rites of death.”
― The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
Now that you’ve heard our father’s iron curses,
I implore you in the name of the gods,
if father’s curses all come true at last,
and if some way back to Thebes is found for you,
don’t neglect me, please, give me burial,
the honored rites of death.”
― The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus