OT key quotes

• "I'll bring it all to light myself"


  Oedipus
• "You scum of the earth, you'd enrage a heart of stone"


  Oedipus to Tiresias
• "I'm not the man to yearn for kingship"


  Creon to Oedipus
• "running, always running"


  Oedipus
• "You're doomed - may you never fathom who you are"


  Jocasta to Oedipus
• "I did it all myself!"


  Oedipus
• "You can trust me. I am ready to help. I'll do anything"


  Oedipus
• "I would be blind to misery not to pity my people kneeling at my feet"


  Oedipus
• "I am Oedipus"


  Oedipus
• "I am [...] Apollo's champion"


  Oedipus
• "I grieve for these people, my people, far more than I fear for my own life"


  Oedipus
• "raging plague in all its vengeance" -> nemesis
• "Thebes is dying"
• "Black Death luxuriates in the raw, wailing miseries of Thebes"
• "Oedipus, king of the land, our greatest power!"
• Oedipus = "best of men"


  Priest
• "The omens were good that day you (Oedipus) brought us joy - be the same man today!"


  Priest
• "Drive out the corruption from the land, don't harbour it any longer, past all cure, don't nurse it in your soil - root it out!"


  Oracle
• "Pay the killers back - whoever is responsible"


  Oracle
• "The truth lives inside him, him alone"


  Leader about Tiresias
• "How terrible - to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!"


  Tiresias
• "To force the gods to act against their will - no man has the power"


  Oedipus
• "I say you are the murderer you hunt"


  Tiresias to Oedipus
• "You've lost your power, stone-blind, stone-deaf, eyes blind as stone!"


  Oedipus to Tiresias
• "Blind, lost in the night, endless night that nursed you!"


  Oedipus to Tiresias
• "You are the curse, the corruption of the land!"


  Tiresias to Oedipus
• "Fortune-teller peddling lies, eyes peeled for his own profit"


  Oedipus to Tiresias
• "Now I see it all" (pre-revelation)


  Oedipus
• "If you didn't look so senile the lash would teach you what your scheming means!"


  Oedipus to Tiresias
• "You and your birds, your gods - nothing"


  Oedipus to Tiresias
• "You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life"


  Tiresias to Oedipus
• "Darkness shrouding your eyes that now can see the light!"


  Tiresias to Oedipus
• "Wait... who is my father?"


  Oedipus
• "This day will bring your birth and your destruction"


  Tiresias to Oedipus
• "Your great fortune, true, it was your ruin"


  Tiresias to Oedipus
• "You, plotting to kill me, kill the king - I see it all"


  Oedipus to Creon
• "I must rule"


  Oedipus
• "I think you're insane"


  Creon to Oedipus
• "What if you're wholly wrong?"


  Creon to Oedipus
• Creon has sophrosune, Oedipus is impetuous