Oedipus Rex Quotes
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“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“Time, which sees all things, has found you out.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
― Oedipus Rex
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
― Oedipus Rex
“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Oedipus Rex
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Oedipus Rex
“Oblivion - what a blessing...for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“...count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“How terrible-- to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“All my care is you, and all my pleasure yours.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day. ”
― Sophocles: Oedipus Rex (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
― Sophocles: Oedipus Rex (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
“Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.”
― Oedipus the King
― Oedipus the King
“Those who jump to conclusions may go wrong.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“Weep not, everything must have its day.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“Never honor the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the next.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“Whatever is sought for can be caught, you know, whatever is neglected slips away.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“It's perfect justice: natures like yours are hardest on themselves.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“Despite so many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is well.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“They are dying, the old oracles sent to Laius, now our masters strike them off the rolls. Nowhere Apollo's golden glory now -- the gods, the gods go down.”
― Oedipus The King
― Oedipus The King
“Whose tale more sad than thine, whose lot more dire? O Oedipus, discrowned head, Thy cradle was thy marriage bed.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“And if you find I've lied, from this day on call the prophet blind.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.”
― The Oedipus Tyrannus
― The Oedipus Tyrannus
“(...) I, for one, prize less
The name of king than deeds of kingly power;
And so would all who learn in wisdom’s school.”
― Oedipus Rex
The name of king than deeds of kingly power;
And so would all who learn in wisdom’s school.”
― Oedipus Rex
“I am free! for I have in me the strength of truth.”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“What is God singing in his profound Delphi of gold and shadow?”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex