Top 1200 Greek Tragedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?
That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am.
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.
I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
Poetry is not about personal pain or tragedy. It should resonate the society's grief.
The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.
Nosology (from the Greek nosos, meaning disease, and logos, referring to study) is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things.
All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.
Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.
This is a tragedy for the players. Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back.
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.
I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.
The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.
I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.
I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek economy.
You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.
When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.
Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier
The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.
It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.
Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.
Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society.
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected.
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
I play for those young kids with cancer or anybody who went through a tragedy in their life.
When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.
I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit, combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek Economy.
Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.
For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.
A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.
Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.
In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance.
Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.
I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.
tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
I think it's in a way my tragedy that people don't see me for the serious roles I have played.
The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.
