Top 1200 Greek Tragedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.
It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.
No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.
I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.
I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.
Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.
I never did comedy or tragedy. I just live a situation and my mission is to entertain people.
All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.
[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.
A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.
The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.
All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.
A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.
To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.
It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.
My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.
My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.
I am pretty much gluten-free; I barely ever eat bread, and the only dairy I eat is Greek yogurt and goat cheese.
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.
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.
Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.
If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.
Everybody tries to take a tragedy and turn it to their own political purposes, and it's both sides.
We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.
What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?
Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels.
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.
When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity
They're always saying that tragedy brings family closer, but unfortunately, sometimes it doesn't work like that.
Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.
Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.
It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.
Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.
Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.
