← Everything disposed him towards Ismene: his taste for dance and games, his taste for happiness and success, his sensuality too, because Ismene is much more beautiful than Antigone. 🔊✎
← For your father too, happiness could never be enough, normal human unhappiness was too little. 🔊✎
← You'll learn, you as well, too late, life is a book you love, it's a child playing at your feet, it's a tool that sits comfortably in your hand, it's a bench in front of your house where you rest in the evening. You'll despise me again, but discovering that, you'll see, is the silver lining of getting old; life is perhaps all the same just happiness. 🔊✎
← What will it be, my happiness? What kind of happy woman is little Antigone going to become? What miserable things is she going to have to do, her as well, so that she can gnaw out her little morsel of happiness? Tell me, who's she going to lie to, who's she going to smile at, who's she going to sell herself to? Who's she going to let die while she looks the other way? 🔊✎
← But if he has to keep paying interest to keep your happiness and your life, if Haemon no longer becomes pale when I become pale, if he no longer thinks I'm dead when I'm five minutes late, if he no longer feels alone in the world and hates me when I laugh and he doesn't know why, if he turns into Mr Haemon and learns to say "yes" like everyone else, then no, I don't love Haemon anymore. 🔊✎
← Why do you want me to be quiet? Because you know I'm right? You think I can't see in your eyes that I know that? You know I'm right, but you'll never admit it, because you're clinging on to your happiness like a dog with a bone. 🔊✎
← Yes, your happiness and mine, you idiot! 🔊✎
← You all disgust me with your happiness! With your life that you have to love, whatever it costs. Yes, like a dog, like those dogs that lick everything they find. And that little chance that it'll all work out, as long as you don't ask for too much. 🔊✎
← Ah, your faces, your poor faces all thirsting after happiness! You're the ugly ones, even the most beautiful. You have something ugly around your eyes and your mouths. 🔊✎