“The happiest life is to be without thought”

“Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.”

“I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory.”

“Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came”

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

“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”

“ISMENE: How can I live alone, without her?CREON: Her? Don't even mention her-- she no longer exists.ISMENE: What? You'd kill your own son's bride?CREON: Absolutely: there are other fields for him to plow.”