“I will say no more. Do as you like, build your anger” (line 390).
“Oh I’ll let loose, I have such fury in me now I see it all. You helped hatch the plot, you did the work, yes, short of killing him with your own hands and given eyes I’d say you did the killing single-handed!” (lines 393-397).
“I’d never have to come to this, my father’s murder never been branded mother’s husband , all men see me now! Now, loathed by the gods, son of the mother I defiled coupling in my father’s bed” (lines 1491-1494).
“You, you’ll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused!...blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness-blind!...raking them down his eyes. And at each stroke blood spurts from the roots” (lines 1405-1412).
”Oh my children the new blood of ancient Thebes, why are you here? Huddling at my altar, praying before me...I thought it wrong , my children, to hear the truth from others, Here I am my self you all know me , the world knows my fame: I am Oedipus” (lines 1-9).