No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.

Sophocles: Oedipus the king. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone (ed. Harvard Univ Pr, 1977) - ISBN: 9780674990234