Top 1200 Tragic Hero Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on October 9, 2024.
The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.
The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.
My father is my hero. No matter what, I'll always forgive him.
For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.
Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four.
When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.
What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Even in a hero's heart
Discretion is the better part.
There's a hero if you look inside your heart. You don't have to be afraid of what you are.
And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.
I look for characters that are extremely flawed and the anti-hero.
What are you smiling at?’ - ‘Oh, nothing much. Just my hero
Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most.
It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
This is the tragic accent of the scene.
My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.
To every little girl her father is a hero.
The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
General David Petraeus is an American patriot and hero.
not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.
Whether black or white, we are all Americans, and we should stand united against the horrid and tragic loss of one of our brothers. Anything less is simply not the American way.
I was supposed to do The Joy Of Sex with John Belushi, but the week before we were gonna start filming, he died. So that was really tragic. That put the whole project on the shelf.
Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results?
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.
What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and, to me, hilarious.
The real hero must fail in order to succeed.
My daughter fell in love with Ben Barnes, of course. She's 17. What are you gonna do? That was a tragic loss. He didn't fall in love with her.
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.
I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.
Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.
The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.
Kissing a new hero isn't acceptable to me, especially when it's not necessary.
Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.
I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
Its hard to take in. One of our most talented singer songwriters has left us. RIP George Michael. Such sad, tragic news. 2016 please end.
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.
Every man is the hero of his own song.
The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.
A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.
Marian Wright Edelman is a mentor and hero of mine.
Im pretty sure that everybodys hero is Gannicus
If great content is the hero, then banners are the villain.
This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.
Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'
There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare. J. J. Greene Quotes.
Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.
...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?
