Antigone

• "I have longer to please the dead than please the living here: in the kingdom down below I'll lie forever."- Antigone
• "I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory."- Antigone
• "Like father like daughter, passionate, wild … she hasn't learned to bend before adversity."- Creon
• "Then reflect, my son: you are poised, once more, on the razor-edge of fate."
• "The gods themselves cannot be trusted"- Creon
• "It was no crime to bury him!"- Ismene
• I will bury him myself. And even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory. I will lie with the one I love and loved by him—an outrage sacred to the gods!- Antigone
• Dear god, shout it from the rooftops. I’ll hate you all the more for silence—tell the world!- Antigone
• I was born to join in love, not hate—that is my nature.
• The king was shattered. We took his orders, went and searched, and there in the deepest, dark recesses of the tomb we found her . . . hanged by the neck in a fine linen noose, strangled in her veils—and the boy, his arms flung around her waist . . .- Messenger
• The girl was an old hand at insolence when she overrode the edicts we made public. But once she had done it—the insolence, twice over—to glory in it laughing, mocking us to our face with what she’d done.- Creon