“Leave me to my own absurdity.”

“Do not fear for me. Make straight your own path to destiny.”

“They see you and me: they know my pain's a fact, my revenge is empty breath.”

“Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.”

“OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom! If with my knowledge he lives at my hearthI pray that I myself may feel my curse. On you I lay my charge to fulfill all this for me, for the God, and for this land of ours destroyed and blighted, by the God forsaken.”

“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.”

“All my care is you, and all my pleasure yours.”