And, when your years of kingship are remembered,
Let them not say We Rose, but later fell –
Keep the State from going down in the storm!
(Prologue: Priest – p 5)
See, how our lives like birds take wing,
Like sparks that fly when a fire soars,
To the shore of the god of the evening.
(Parodos: Chorus – Strophe 2 – p 11)
You call me unfeeling. If you could only see
The nature of your own feelings…
(Scene I: Teiresias – 17)
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
(Exodus: Second Messenger – 65)