8 Quotes Tagged: oedipus-rex

How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth.

King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.

Weep not, everything must have its day.

Whose tale more sad than thine, whose lot more dire? O Oedipus, discrowned head, Thy cradle was thy marriage bed.

Long, long ago; her thought was of that child
By him begot, the son by whom the sire
Was murdered and the mother left to breed
With her own seed, a monstrous progeny.
Then she bewailed the marriage bed whereon
Poor wretch, she had conceived a double brood,
Husband by husband, children by her child.

Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

Closer,
it’s all right. Touch the man of grief.
Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine
and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.