“Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?”
Work
Apre s Sophocle, J. Anouilh reprend le mythe d'Antigone. Fille d'Oedipe et de Jocaste, la jeune Antigone est en re volte contre la loi humaine qui interdit d'enterrer le corps de son fre re Polynice. Pre sente e sous l'Occupation en 1944, cette pie ce met en sce ne l'absolu d'un personnage en re volte face au pouvoir, a l'injustice et a la me diocrite .
Quotes
Showing 1-7 of 7
Jean Anouilh
Canonical work source
“Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?”
“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum hap...”
0 likes
“A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”
“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”
“S takva djela dika mi je mrijet, Jer draga do njeg - do dragog ću u grob leć, Učiniv sveti grijeh. Ta dulje sviđat se Ja svijetu moram onom negol' ovome, Jer ondje dovijek ću počivat. Sviđa...”
“Ta ne proglasi meni valj'da ovo Zeus, Nit Pravda, vjerna druga donjih bogova, Ovakvih zakona ti ljudma postavi; Nit tvoj je, mišljah, proglas taj toliko jak, Te ti ko smrtnik dići bi se moga...”
“Al' dobro znaj, da neće više mnogoput Projurit sunce u svom trku hitrome, A ti ćeš sam od svoje krvi vratiti Mrtvaca jednog mrtvima za odmjenu. Ti živu dušu vrže s gornjeg svijeta nam U donj...”