Antigone Quotes

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

The only crime is pride.

Death is not the worst; there are things more bitter than death.

I would not count any enemy of my country as a friend.

The dead will not ask the living for help.

Love, unconquerable, waster of rich men, keeper of warm lights and all-night vigil in the soft face of a girl: sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!

But if a man walks without fear of gods’ judgment, and acts in defiance of laws established, relying on idle hope, then nothing that he thinks will be successfully fulfilled. Goodness is crowned by ending well.

I pledge my allegiance to the city’s welfare. Whomever the city sets in authority, that’s who must be obeyed- in big matters, and in small matters, too.

Had it been a husband, or a child laid out, dead and given over to these laws, it would have been a different story.

The laws of the land are mighty, and we must revere them, sworn as we are to the gods’ sworn responsibilities.

But if I left my brother in death unwrapped, an unburied corpse, that was the only wrong you could lay to my charge.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.

It was not God’s proclamation. That final Justice that rules the world below makes no such laws.

Who really knows? Who can tell about tomorrow?

We who see both sides must keep the peace between enemies and make the rage of the proud man powerless.

No man concurs with me.

But in my eyes he will always be right.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

The only crime is pride.

Death is not the worst; there are things more bitter than death.

I would not count any enemy of my country as a friend.

The dead will not ask the living for help.

Love, unconquerable, waster of rich men, keeper of warm lights and all-night vigil in the soft face of a girl: sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!

But if a man walks without fear of gods’ judgment, and acts in defiance of laws established, relying on idle hope, then nothing that he thinks will be successfully fulfilled. Goodness is crowned by ending well.

I pledge my allegiance to the city’s welfare. Whomever the city sets in authority, that’s who must be obeyed- in big matters, and in small matters, too.

Had it been a husband, or a child laid out, dead and given over to these laws, it would have been a different story.

The laws of the land are mighty, and we must revere them, sworn as we are to the gods’ sworn responsibilities.

But if I left my brother in death unwrapped, an unburied corpse, that was the only wrong you could lay to my charge.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.

It was not God’s proclamation. That final Justice that rules the world below makes no such laws.

Who really knows? Who can tell about tomorrow?

We who see both sides must keep the peace between enemies and make the rage of the proud man powerless.

No man concurs with me.

But in my eyes he will always be right.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

The only crime is pride.

Death is not the worst; there are things more bitter than death.

I would not count any enemy of my country as a friend.

The dead will not ask the living for help.

Love, unconquerable, waster of rich men, keeper of warm lights and all-night vigil in the soft face of a girl: sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!

But if a man walks without fear of gods’ judgment, and acts in defiance of laws established, relying on idle hope, then nothing that he thinks will be successfully fulfilled. Goodness is crowned by ending well.

I pledge my allegiance to the city’s welfare. Whomever the city sets in authority, that’s who must be obeyed- in big matters, and in small matters, too.

Had it been a husband, or a child laid out, dead and given over to these laws, it would have been a different story.

The laws of the land are mighty, and we must revere them, sworn as we are to the gods’ sworn responsibilities.

But if I left my brother in death unwrapped, an unburied corpse, that was the only wrong you could lay to my charge.