...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy…

The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

— Plato

“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever. Conventional tragedy is too easy. The hero dies and we feel a purging of…

— Chinua Achebe

In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the…

— Mervyn Peake

“I have the soul of a private jet owner, and the life of a public transportation rider. It's a real tragedy.”

— John Green

“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young woman, someone’s…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of…

— Carla Gugino

Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people read Greek…

— Gao Xingjian

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur,…

— Neil Patrick Harris

The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of…

— Janet Malcolm

The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad…

— Janet Malcolm

“In theater, that's the whole thing about Greek tragedy. You take the audience through the—like, the realest shit, the tearing out the eyes or…

— Riley Redgate

“Dying is not the real tragedy. Forgetting is.”

— Samantha Sotto

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to…

— Arnold Bennett

“The real tragedy is not whether lib or con will win but that one of them will”

— Anonymous