“No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?”

“A man's anger can never age and fade away, not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain.”

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”

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

“I was born to share love, not hate”, said Antigone. “Go then, and share your love for the dead”, responds Creon.”

“They are dying, the old oracles sent to Laius, now our masters strike them off the rolls. Nowhere Apollo's golden glory now -- the gods, the gods go down.”

“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”