How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! — Sophocles 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
Ignorance is bliss-Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions. — Stephen Colbert 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
“Publishing makes Oedipus Rex look like a play about distant cousins.” — Reed Farrel Coleman 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
“Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It struck me that my backside was my best asset and that keeping it hidden would be like Oedipus pulling out his… — Chloe Thurlow 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
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
I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Oedipus had to abandon his certainty, his clarity, and supposed insight in order to become aware of the dark ambiguity of the… — Karen Armstrong 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
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
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
Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental… — Ayelet Waldman 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
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
I remember the first time I read Freud, I was 25 or 30, and I was expecting it to be about the… — Arnaud Desplechin Copy Share Image
I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm… — Wole Soyinka 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
“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
Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible… — Peter Brook 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
"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it. — M.J. Rose 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
“The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us… — Roman Payne 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
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
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
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
“Here ‘the attraction of sexual intercourse between parents and child or grandchild as incest’, ‘Oedipus complex’ and ‘abnormal attachment of persons without… — Lecturer M k Bhutta Copy Share Image
“OEDIPUS: O, O, O, they will all come, all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me look upon you no… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“In Derrida’s words, Anti-Oedipus was a ‘very bad book (confused, full of contorted disclaimers, etc.) but an important symptomatic event, to judge… — Benoît Peeters 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
