Top 1200 Greek Tragedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 11
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.
When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
It's okay to say you're doing well in the time of tragedy.
The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.
The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.
The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.
Everyone deals with tragedy in his own way.
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy
Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.
That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.
Sometimes you have this tragedy which turns into an incredible opportunity.
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.
I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.
It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.
It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.
The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.
People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.
In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
I eat a lot of vegetables and salad. I put strawberries, pomegranate seeds, blackberries, and blueberries into shakes and add Greek yoghurt for a snack. I have this when I'm not training.
Every time there's a tragedy, everything goes up.
In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.
The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
That's the tragedy of our country. Everyone is an inexperienced politician.
Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.
A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.
I have touched all genres, be it comedy, tragedy or negative roles.
It is a tragedy when you pay to make a public broadcaster survive.
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.
It would be a tragedy for democracy if dissent goes away.
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
