"Antigone" Quotes
Two sisters come into conflict over the burial of their brother, leading to a tragic confrontation with the king.
plays | 80 pages | Published in 1941
Quotes
I would not exchange this death for all the wealth in the world.
I was born to love, not to hate.
There's a great deal to be said for the vengeful dead.
I've always been afraid of your strength. I thought it was your one weakness.
We're only women, we can't fight with men, Antigone!
I should not want to be a man, not for anything in the world.
No one shall see the tears in my eyes. I'll go alone to the cave where I was born.
It's hard, it's hard to love an enemy.
You'll be alive, but only as long as you're not noticed.
Not of my own free will, but by compulsion. Oh, it is usual that the lesser should obey the greater.





