“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”

“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”

“To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.”

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

“You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused! Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness-blind!”

“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”

“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.”