← You aren't even dressed. You'll see, you'll be the death of me yet. 🔊✎
← Nurse stronger than fever, nurse stronger than nightmares, stronger than the shadow of the wardrobe that stares at you from the wall and keeps changing, stronger than the thousand silent insects that keep gnawing away all night long, stronger than the night itself with its mad song you can't hear; nurse, stronger than death. 🔊✎
← Death is there, and treason and despair, all ready to use, and the outbursts, and the storms, and the silences, all the silences: the silence when the headsman raises his axe at the end, the silence at the beginning when the two lovers are naked in front of each other for the first time in the dark bedroom, without daring to move, the silence when the crowd's screams burst out around the conqueror and it's like a film where the sound has been cut, all those open mouths with nothing coming out, all that commotion which is just a picture, and the conqueror, who has already been conquered, alone in the middle of his silence... 🔊✎
← In your family, it's kind of embarrassing to be just human. You need to get together with fate and death. You need to kill your father and sleep with your mother and then hear the whole thing afterwards, word by word. 🔊✎
← Have you killed! Take a look at yourself. You're too thin. Put on a bit of weight, so that you can give Haemon a nice, fat, healthy baby. I promise you, Thebes needs that more than it needs your death. 🔊✎
← You've chosen life and I've chosen death. So leave me alone and stop moaning. 🔊✎
← I did everything I could to try and save her, Haemon. I tried everything, I swear it. She doesn't love you. She could have lived. She preferred madness and death. 🔊✎
← You have my death now, that's enough. Fix things so I don't need to see anyone again until it's over. 🔊✎
← The poor of Thebes will be cold this winter, Creon. When she learned of her son's death, the queen put down her needles, calmly and sensibly, after she'd finished her row, just as she'd always done, perhaps a little more calmly than usual. 🔊✎