The Oedipus Cycle Quotes

“Laius was killed, they say, by certain travelers.”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“Burn that god of death that all gods hate!”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“Banish the man, or pay back blood with blood.
Murder sets the plague-storm on the city.”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“raging plague in all its vengeance, devastating
the house of Cadmus!”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“Many years have passed since OEDIPUS solved the riddle of the Sphinx and ascended the throne of Thebes, and now a plague has struck the city.”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“Creon: You consider it right for a man of my years and experience
To go to school to a boy?

Haimon: It is not right
If I am wrong. But if I am young, and right,
What does my age matter?”
― Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

“دانایی رنج است برای دانایان و رهایی است برای همگان.”
― Sophocles, The Theban Plays

“پاندورا تا به زمین رسید، از کنجکاوی دیوانه‌وار و عشقی که به دانستن داشت، به اغوای آتنه الهه دانائی و خرد، درِ سبویی را که خدایان به وی هدیه داده بودند، گشود. رنج‌های هول‌انگیز از آن گریختند و زمین را فراگرفتند، تنها امید در سبو باقی ماند تا رنجی باشد در تسلای بشر.”
― Sophocles, The Theban Plays

“who seeks shall find; Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind.”
― Francis Storr, Oedipus Trilogy

“suppose that when you begged for something desperately
a man should neither grant it you nor give sympathy even; but later when you were glutted with all your heart's desire, should give it then, when charity was no charity at all?”
― Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

“messenger: polybos was not your father.
oedipus: not my father!
messenger: no more your father than the man speaking to you.
oedipus: but you are nothing to me!
messenger: neither was he.”
― Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

“listen to me. you mock my blindness, do you? but i say that you, with both your eyes, are blind: you can not see the wretchedness of your life, nor in whose house you live, no, nor with whom. who are your father and mother? can you tell me?”
― Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

“Alas, alas, what misery to be wise When wisdom profits nothing!”
― Sophocles, The Oedipus Trilogy

“This Dover edition, first published in 2006, contains the unabridged republication of the plays Oedipus. Tyrannus, Oedipus. Coloneus, and Antigone from the volume The Dramas of Sophocles Rendered in English Verse Dramatic (5 Lyric by Sir George Young, as published by J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., London, in 1906.”
― Sophocles, The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone

“PHI.: All winds are fair to him who flies from woe.”
― Sophocles, Philoctetes

“OD.: Son of a valiant sire, I, too, in youth,
Had once a slow tongue and an active hand.
But since I have proved the world, I clearly see
Words and not deeds give mastery over men.”
― Sophocles, Philoctetes

“Enter OEDIPUS, blinded, led by a boy.”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“Doğru davranıp davranmadığını tekrar bir düşün istersen, çünkü en iyi seçenek korkuya neden olmayandır.s.34”
― Sophocles, Philoctetes

“O generație nu răscumpără pe cea dinaintea ei”
― Sofocle, Antigone - Edipo Re - Edipo a Colono

“Multe minuni sunt pe lume dar nici una ca inima omului minunată, el omul care plutește dincolo de marea înzăpezită și străbate dus de vânturile aducătoare de furtuni ale sudului.”
― Sofocle, Antigone - Edipo Re - Edipo a Colono

“Fiindcă nici o născocire rea n-a încolțit în sufletul omului mai repede ca banul”
― Sofocle, Antigone - Edipo Re - Edipo a Colono

“Lucrurile grele sporesc teama de a le spune.”
― Sofocle, Antigone - Edipo Re - Edipo a Colono

“shorn of everything—you’re their only hope.”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“godforsaken, cursed by the gods!
I pity you but I can’t bear to look.”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“what dark power leapt beyond all bounds,
beyond belief, to crush your wretched life?”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“you are about to see a sight, a horror
even his mortal enemy would pity.”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“though it costs a little sorrow in the bargain”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“Ai—
now I can see it all, clear as day.”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“no skill in the world,
nothing human can penetrate the future.”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“you and your loved ones live together in infamy,
you cannot see how far you’ve gone in guilt.”
― Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus