Oedipus Quotes

Question 0

Everything ends

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Here, with me

Question 1

Nothing

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Can stop me

Question 2

Taunt me for

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The gift of my brilliant mind

Question 3

Luck, goddess who made

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Man all that is good, made me. Nothing can dishonour me, ever.

Question 4

Stubborn old

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Fool, you’d make a rock angry

Question 5

Viciously

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Cunningly plotting

Question 6

You were born

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Devious

Question 7

Say it

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To the whole city

Question 8

How much better

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To rule a city of men than be king of empty earth

Question 9

But I, nobody else,

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I, I raised these two hands of mine

Question 10

My heart would

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Be a stone if I felt no pity for these poor shattered people of mine

Question 11

Children, poor helpless

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Children

Question 12

My whole being

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Wails and breaks for this city, for myself, for all of you

Question 13

I will do

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Everything. Everything

Question 14

We called you king

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Draped you in gold

Question 15

Everybody everywhere

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Knows who I am: Oedipus. King.

Question 16

Citizens, hear my curse again -

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Give this man nothing. Let him touch nothing. … With my own mouth I spoke these monstrous curses against myself.

Question 17

Wasn’t i

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Born evil? Isn’t every part of me unclean?

Question 18

The griefs

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We cause ourselves cut deepest of all

Question 19

You will never marry

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But grow hard and dry like wheat so far beyond harvest that the wind blows its flakes into the winter sky

Question 20

Why should the

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Thought of marrying your mother make you so afraid?

Question 21

What raw track

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Of thorns and stones, what rock, gulley or blond hill won’t echo your screams?

Question 22

O kithairon,

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why did you shelter me and let me live?

Question 23

Not sons, not daughters

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Something else, monsters

Question 24

Oedipus came crashing in

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He was howling, stalking up and down ... Like a bull, lurching, charging

Question 25

The God of plague

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Guts our city and fills the black world under us ... With the shrieks of women

Question 26

Apollo

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Shoot into our enemy's eyes

Question 27

Blind

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Our enemy

Question 28

Nothing. No one to see

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No one to love, no one to speak to, no one to hear.

Question 29

I would have made this body of mine a wall.

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I would have heard nothing, tasted nothing, seen nothing ... so pain would never reach me anymore

Question 30

What are we

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Duty ghosts images a rustle of air nothing nothing no happiness lasts nothing human lasts

Question 31

I am nothing but

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My own cries breaking again and again

Question 32

You're blind. Blind in your eyes.

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Blind in your ears. Blind in your mind.

Question 33

Why should I have

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Eyes? Why? When nothing I saw was worth seeing?

Question 34

If you think

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This stubborn anger of yours, this perversity, is something to be proud of, you're mad

Question 35

Isn't that

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What i predicted ?

Question 36

The future has

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No shape. The shapes of prophecy lie. I see nothing in them.

Question 37

Luck is everything.

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Things happen.

Question 38

No more

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Questions, for gods sake, for the sake of your own life! You must stop.

Question 39

You were born

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To suffer

Question 40

I have wept, struggled,

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wandered in this maze of thought, tried every road, searched hard

Question 41

Citizens, here my curse again

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Give this man nothing, let him touch nothing ... With my own mouth I spoke these monstrous curses against myself

Question 42

Come

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Come to your brothers arms

Question 43

Light light light

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Never again flood these eyes with your white radiance

Question 44

The long pins sank deep

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All the way back into the sockets

Question 45

If you weren't blind

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If you had eyes to see with, I'd say you, and you alone, did it all

Question 46

I will expose

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The killer, I will reveal him to the light

Question 47

Cursing his

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Two blind eyes over and over

Question 48

What God leaped on

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You from beyond the last border of space, what madness entered you