Oedipus - Quotes

I'll do anything. I would be blind to misery not to pity my people kneeling at my feet.

• Chorus

• Oedipus

• Creon

• Tiresias

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Now we pray to you. You cannot equal the gods, your children know that, bending at your alter. But we do rate you first of men, both in the common crises of our lives and face-to-face encounters with the gods.

• Chorus

• Oedipus

• Priest

• Tiresias

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

If you want my report in the presence of these people...I'm ready now, or we might go inside.

• Chorus

• Oedipus

• Tiresias

• Creon

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I'll start again - I'll bring it all to light myself!

• Priest

• Oedipus

• Creon

• Tiresias

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

How terrible - to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!

• Chorus

• Oedipus

• Creon

• Tiresias

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What will come will come. Even if I shroud it all in silence.

• Chorus

• Oedipus

• Creon

• Tiresias

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

This day will bring your birth and your destruction.

• Chorus

• Oedipus

• Creon

• Tiresias

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The skilled prophet scans the birds and shatters me with terror! I can't accept him, can't deny him, don't know what to say, I'm lost...

• Chorus

• Oedipus

• Creon

• Jocasta

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

But if I wore the crown...there'd be many painful duties to perform, hardly to my taste.

• Oedipus

• Creon

• Tiresias

• Jocasta

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A prophet? Well then, free yourself of every charge! Listen to me and learn some peace of mind: no skill in the world, nothing human can penetrate the future.

• Oedipus

• Creon

• Tiresias

• Jocasta

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3