Oedipus Rex Quotes

“How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Weep not, everything must have its day.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

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

“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.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“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.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Time alone can bring the just man to light - the criminal you can spot in just one short day.”
― Sophocles (trans. Robert Fagles), The Theban Plays

“3. Here ‘the attraction of sexual intercourse between parents and child or grandchild as incest’, ‘Oedipus complex’ and ‘abnormal attachment of persons without power of resisting emotions called fixations’, stimulates characters to meet their tragic flaw.”
― Lecturer M k Bhutta

“Nicht durch seine Fehler, sondern durch seine Qualitäten wird der Mensch in die große Tragödie hineingezogen.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“If you think obstinacy without wisdom a valuable possession, you are wrong.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus the King