{"quotes":[{"text":"There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone.' - Sentry.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["angry","angry-bird","antigone","bird","birds-nest","girl","little-ones","nest","screaming","screaming-girl","sentry","sophocles","the-theban-plays"],"id":3862,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["ancient-greece","sophocles","tragedy"],"id":19284,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["antigone","reason","sophocles"],"id":20726,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief.Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["oedipus-rex","prose","sophocles"],"id":24685,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan.","author":"Anne Carson","tags":["misfortune","sophocles","tragedy"],"id":57280,"author_id":"Anne+Carson"},{"text":"May the dead forgive me, I can do no otherBut as I am commanded; to do more is madness.' - Ismene.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["antigone","dead","forgive","forgiveness","ismene","madness","sophocles","the-dead","the-theban-plays"],"id":62375,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"JOCASTA:So clear in this case were the oracles,so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;what God discovers need of, easilyhe shows to us himself.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["ancient-greece","sophocles","tragedy"],"id":75175,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes,Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning soul,Pointing out the way to infamy and shame.' - Creon.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["antigone","creon","curse","curse-of-man","infamy","money","shame","sophocles","temptation","the-theban-plays"],"id":124444,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"Evil gains work their punishment.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["evil","fragments","punishment","sophocles"],"id":147183,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["ancient-greece","sophocles","tragedy"],"id":154087,"author_id":"Sophocles"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}