← And they all think like him in the city. There's thousands and thousands of those people all round us, the streets of Thebes are crawling with them. 🔊✎
← Those are your orders. I want no one but you near the body. 🔊✎
← Those words that condemn you are so exciting, aren't they? You just lap them up when your name is Oedipus or Antigone. And then it's so simple to poke your eyes out and go out begging on the roads with your children. 🔊✎
← Don't you understand that if anyone other than those three thugs finds out what you tried to do, I will be obliged to put you to death? 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← But father, you see they're taking her away! Father, don't let those men take her away! 🔊✎
← Do you think I can live without her? Do you think I'll accept your life? All those days, from morning to night, without her. All those stupid things you do, those stupid things you say, without her. 🔊✎
← And here you are in front of me with those tears in your eyes and your heart hurting in your chest, my little boy, for the last time... 🔊✎
← All the care you took of me, all your pride, all those books full of heroes, that was to get here? To be a man, like you say, and happy to be alive? 🔊✎
← And those who are still alive will quietly start to forget them and mix up their names. It's over. 🔊✎