Antigone Quotes: top 25 famous quotes about Antigone

Antigone Quotes & Sayings

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I was born to share love, not hate", said Antigone. "Go then, and share your love for the dead", responds Creon. — Sophocles

Leave me to my own absurdity. — Sophocles

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. — Rabindranath Tagore

Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong. — Sophocles

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life — Sophocles

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. — Oscar Wilde

The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes. — Sophocles

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me — Jean Anouilh

The inner intent one has of 'may everyone attain salvation', will bring salvation to himself first. — Dada Bhagwan

As Antigone said, I am neither a dweller among men nor ghosts. — Thomas Hardy

Amazed how I get so much paper? I'm more amazed how you could be such a hater! — Wiz Khalifa

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head. — Aristide Briand

What greater wound is there than a false friend? — Sophocles

Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any. — Herman Melville

Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer; — Sophocles

It is my nature to join in love, not hate. — Sophocles

What woe is lacking to my tale of woes? — Sophocles

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. — Jean Anouilh

My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all. — Gemma Arterton

You're sad? I'll cheer you up. You're upset? I'd love to listen. All you have to do is come to me, you know I'll be there for you. — Werley Nortreus

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish! — Gerald Morris

But some mistakes need to be made in order for you to realize they actually weren't mistakes in the first place, — Courtney Turk

Mourning suits us Spanish women.
Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe
we are bred for the part. — Judith Ortiz Cofer

Our curiosity is supposed to have limits, though these have never been defined exactly. — Margaret Atwood