The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus.… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
I like violence because I like looking at it and I like understanding emotional and physical violence and how they work with… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
“...What was wrong between Diana and me was that she was too much a mother to me, and as I had had… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories?… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“MARSYAS: Beware! Easily trips the big word "dare." Each man's an Œdipus, that thinks He hath the four powers of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Ignorance is bliss-Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“This pursuit of unavailable distant people has oedipal roots. … fearing the consequences, they make certain that they fail at the attempt.”… — Kantor Copy Share Image
“I know that you are deathly sick; and yet, sick as you are, not one is as sick as I.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
At the time I was first writing the stories/essays that appear in Oedipus Wrecked, I was still under the impression that people… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
