☼ antigone sentence starters ☼
if it has come to this what can I do, either to help or hinder?
even if you should wish to give your help i would not take it now.
if i have to die for this pure crime, i am content.
look to yourself and do not fear for me.
go and denounce me!
when I can do no more, then i will stop.
none are so foolish as to long for death.
silence! or you will anger me.
why must you probe the seat of our displeasure?
it's bad, to judge at random, and judge wrong!
tell me briefly — i want no long speech: did you not know that this had been forbidden?
so you dared to disobey the law?
that would have caused me grief; this causes none.
there is no room for pride in one who is a slave!
everything in me displeases you.
have you no shame, not to conform with others?
but in your stormy voyage i am glad to share the danger, travelling at your side.
you shall not die with me.
save your own life. i grudge not your escape.
once a house is shaken of heaven, disaster never leaves it, from generation to generation.
let not this single thought possess you: only what you say is right, and nothing else.
those friends of yours who can must tolerate your raging madness; i will not endure it.
is it your purpose then to kill them both?
now do i make my last journey; now do i see the last sun that ever i shall behold.
unwept, unwedded and unbefriended, alone, pitilessly used, now they drag me to death.
enough of this! if tears and lamentations could stave off death they would go on for ever.
i have nothing to say, no comfort to give: the sentence is passed, and the end is here.
with this plague you are yourself infected.
you'll rouse me to awaken my dark secret.
to yield is very hard, but to resist and meet disaster, that is harder still.
wild lament would be less ominous than this unnatural silence.
my grief crushes me.
i prayed for death; i wish for nothing else.
