Antigone Quotes

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  Todos los hombres cometen errores, pero un buen hombre cede cuando sabe que su proceder es erróneo, y repara el mal. El único delito es el orgullo.

  Sófocles

  Mistake, Character, Pride

  Sófocles (1977). "El ciclo de Edipo: An English Version", Harcourt

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• The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

  Sófocles

  Learning, Men, Intuition

  Sófocles (1977). "El ciclo de Edipo: An English Version", Harcourt

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• Vete entonces si debes hacerlo, pero recuerda que, por tontas que sean tus acciones, los que te quieren te seguirán queriendo.

  Sófocles

  Vida, Amarte, Hechos

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• Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

  Sófocles

  Men, World, Wonder

  Sófocles (1977). "El ciclo de Edipo: An English Version", Harcourt

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• There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

  Sófocles

  Wise, Men, Submission To God

  Sófocles (1939). "La Antígona de Sófocles: Una versión inglesa de Dudley Fitts y Robert Fitzgerald".

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• There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

  Sófocles

  Wisdom (Sabiduría)

  Sófocles (1939). "La Antígona de Sófocles: Una versión inglesa de Dudley Fitts y Robert Fitzgerald".

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• Muéstrame al hombre que mantiene su casa en la mano, Él es apto para la autoridad pública.

  Sófocles

  Men, Hands, House

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles: The Theban Plays”, p.252, Routledge

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• Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

  Sófocles

  Grief, Grieving, Mind

  Sófocles (1939). "La Antígona de Sófocles: Una versión inglesa de Dudley Fitts y Robert Fitzgerald".

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• Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

  Sófocles

  Money, World, Demoralizing

  Sófocles (1977). "El ciclo de Edipo: An English Version", Harcourt

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• Un hombre, aunque sabio, nunca debe avergonzarse de aprender más, y debe desdoblar su mente.

  Sófocles

  Inspiración, Educación, Sabiduría

  David Grene, Sófocles (1959). "Sófocles", [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• No creas que sólo tú puedes tener razón.El hombre que piensa eso,El hombre que sostiene que sólo él tiene el poderPara razonar correctamente, el don de la palabra, el alma-Un hombre así, cuando lo conoces, resulta vacío.

  Sófocles

  Creer, Hombres, Pensar

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• Amor, inconquistable, derrochador de hombres ricos, guardián De cálidas luces y vigilia toda la noche En el suave rostro de una muchacha: ¡Vagabundo del mar, visitante del bosque! Ni siquiera los inmortales puros pueden escapar de ti, y el hombre mortal, en su ocaso de un día, tiembla ante tu gloria.

  Sófocles

  Amor, Chica, Noche

  Sófocles (1977). "El ciclo de Edipo: An English Version", Harcourt

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• Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

  Sófocles

  God, Men, Reason

  Sófocles (1939). "La Antígona de Sófocles: Una versión inglesa de Dudley Fitts y Robert Fitzgerald".

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• We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

  Sófocles

  Littles, Eternity, Please

  Sophocles (1955). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone”

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• How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

  Sófocles

  Judging, Judgement, Prison

  Antigone (c. 442 b.c.).

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• It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

  Sófocles

  Judging, Doe, Terrible

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.54, Penguin

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• Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and Miss Havisham refuses, as it were, to bury the corpse). Like Hamlet, she's focused on what everyone would rather not know or would like to forget, and she seems crazy / stuck as well as bitter, but she's also a perfect prototype of a performance artist. She's intentionally hard to deal with inviting the audience to remain with the violated body, the evidence of violence.

  Laura Mullen

  Crazy, Fighting, Artist

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up dying. So she bought her defiance with her death. The real question I ended up asking was, "What would it mean for Antigone to have stood up to Creon and lived?" And the only way she could have lived is if she had had a serious social movement with her. If she arrived with a social movement to take down the despot, maybe it would have taken 18 days only, like in Egypt. It's really important to be able to re-situate one's rage and destitution in the context of a social movement.

  Judith Butler

  Real, Taken, Mean

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.

  Juliana Spahr

  Girl, Mother, Writing

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• Los griegos consideraban que la esperanza era el último mal de la caja de Pandora. También nos dieron una imagen de la nobleza perfecta: un ser humano que cumple amorosamente su deber para con otro ser humano a pesar de todas las amenazas, y que va a la muerte con orgullo y valentía, sin dejarse disuadir por ninguna esperanza: Antígona.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Orgullo, Maldad, Perfección

  Walter Kaufmann (1977). "El futuro de las humanidades", p.23, Transaction Publishers

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• I am not a playwright. A playwright would take "Antigone" and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.

  Seamus Heaney

  Shapes, Clout, Playwright

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't let anyone tell you that the truth can't disappear. If I believe in anything, rather than God, is that I am part of something that goes all the way back to Antigone, and that whatever speaks the truth of our hearts can only make us stronger. Can only give us the power to counter the hate and bigotry and heal this addled world. Just remember: You are not alone.

  Paul Monette

  Hate, Believe, Heart

  Paul Monette (2014). “Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise”, p.91, Open Road Media

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