Oedipus Quotes
Collection of top 34 famous quotes about Oedipus
Oedipus Quotes & Sayings
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Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
— Tom Robbins
I got Oedipus off the incest chargetechnicality, of course
he didn't know it was his mother at the time. — Jasper Fforde
Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words.
— Sophocles
As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.
— M.J. Rose
Here all guilt ceases, for it cannot cling to such flowers as these.
— Gilles Deleuze
Oedipus had to abandon his certainty, his clarity, and supposed insight in order to become aware of the dark ambiguity of the human condition.
— Karen Armstrong
Oedipus gouges out his eyes, Jocasta hangs herself, both guiltless; the play has come to a harmonious conclusion. Wrote Schiller.
— David Markson
Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act.
— Jerry A. Fodor
What you cannot enforce, do not command!
— Sophocles
Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.
— Sophocles
Weep not, everything must have its day.
— Sophocles
Like it or not, after Freud, no one had to read Sophocles to know something about Oedipus.
— Paul Aron
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!
— Sophocles
The surest way for those who want to rule is praising moderation, talking of peace and quiet. — Seneca.
No delicate breeze brings comfort with icy breath of windto the hearts which pant on the flames. — Seneca.
By God, I'll have more booty in a moment.
— Sophocles
Ignorance is no cure for suffering.
— Seneca.
It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.
— Sophocles
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.
— Arthur Miller
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.
— Roger Zelazny
