"OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom! If with my knowledge he lives at my hearthI pray that I myself may feel my curse. On you I lay my charge to fulfill all this for me, for the God, and for this land of ours destroyed and blighted, by the God forsaken."

"No pity for these things, there is no pity but mine, oh father, for the pity of your butchering rawblood death."

"Last night was a night of bad dreams and ambiguous visions."

"Orestes beloved. as you die you destroy me. You have torn away the part of my mind where hope was ."

"What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?"

"This is Electra. Brilliant no more."

"Oh my love take me there. Let me dwell where you are. I am already nothing, I am already burning. Oh my love, I was once part of you—take me too!"

"Long have we lived in shadows and shuddering: today I think our future is opening out."

"Careful! There is war in women too, as you know by experience, I think."

"Leave me to my own absurdity."