“Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.”

“JOCASTA:So clear in this case were the oracles,so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;what God discovers need of, easilyhe shows to us himself.”

“That will come when it comes; we must deal with all that lies before us. The future rests with the ones who tend the future.”

“Invited, not inflicted; of all wounds, those that seem willful are the worst to bear.”

“Sentry: King, may I speak?Creon: Your very voice distresses me.Sentry: Are you sure that it is my voice, and not your conscience?Creon: By God, he wants to analyze me now!Sentry: It is not what I say, but what has been done, that hurts you.Creon: You talk too much.”

“Tell me the news, again, whatever it is... sorrow and I are hardly strangers. I can bear the worst.”

“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”