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Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2) QUOTES

Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2) QUOTES

1 " I could not turn away from anyone
Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him.
I know well, being mortal, that my claim
Upon the future is no more than yours. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

2 " Thy life is safe while any god saves mine. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

3 " We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

4 " One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

5 " To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another! "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

6 " The good leader repeats the good news, keeps the worst to himself. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

7 " Unwanted favours gain no gratitude. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

8 " In a just cause, the weak overcome the strong”. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

9 " Not to be born at all
Is best, far best that can befall,
Next best, when born, with least delay
To trace the backward way.
For when youth passes with its giddy train,
Troubles on troubles follow, toils on toils,
Pain, pain forever pain;
And none escapes life's coils.
Envy, sedition, strife,
Carnage and war, make up the tale of life. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

10 " A man's anger can never age and fade away, not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

11 " Enough words! The criminals are escaping, we the victims, we stand still. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

12 " The weak can defeat the strong in a case as just as mine. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

13 " كلمة واحدة تجعل المصاعب تختفي، هذه الكلمة هي الحب. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

14 " رغم أن الآلهة ترى كل شئ، فإنها قد تتأخر في إنزال العقاب بمن يحيدون عن الطريق القويم ويخطئون. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

15 " And if to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

16 " أقدار الآلهة لا راد لها. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

17 " Inviolable, untrod; goddesses,
Dread brood of Earth and Darkness, here abide. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

18 " العديد من المدن تنزع إلى العدوان على جيرانها رغم أن هؤلاء الجيران يحسنون السلوك. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

19 " إن الغضب لا يعرف الشيخوخة، ولا يختفي الغضب إلا مع الموت، فالموتى فحسب هم الذين لا يشعرون بالغضب. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

20 " They see you and me: they know my pain's a fact, my revenge is empty breath. "

― Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)