“No pity for these things, there is no pity but mine, oh father, for the pity of your butchering rawblood death.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Orestes beloved. as you die you destroy me. You have torn away the part of my mind where hope was .” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
“In some ways grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask.” — Tana French Copy Share Image
The closer we come to the Greek tragedy that is Brexit, the more horrifying it is to behold. — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
“Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“The theater of man is not always 'amusing', but it is always theater, and theater can be marveled at even when its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
The reason why the British theatrical tradition is world-leading in Greek drama is because there is a flourishing tradition of people rethinking… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much:… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Bear witness for one who is loved and not loved: we cast the cloak gently around her, an end of great woe… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
You can't tell the story of the thousands of people whose lives were destroyed by Bernie Madoff because there are thousands of… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
“Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I perform regularly with a theater company called Outside the Wire who take performances of Greek tragedy to American-military audiences around the… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“By dread things I am compelled. I know that. I see the trap closing. I know what I am. But while life… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“For my money, noir boils down to bleak humanism – or, to put it more plainly: shit options, bad decisions, and dire… — Chris F. Holm Copy Share Image
“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Whenever I'd seen Greek tragedy done with masks and declamations, it brought me out in a rash. — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
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