“I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“But when a god sends harm, no man can sidestep it, no matter how strong he may be.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison. — Patricia Neal Copy Share Image
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“In some ways grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask.” — Tana French Copy Share Image
In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
“Apollo, Apollo—but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“The hounds snap fierce at your heels. Turn toward Athens. I hear them pelting hard on you, I see black flesh and… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“I wish you joy. To spend life's fleeting days mid joy that never meets an evil hour is to be blessed beyond… — Euripides 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
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“None but a fool or an infant could forget a father gone so far and cold. No. Lament is a pattern cut… — Sophocles 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
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
“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
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
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
Sicily is a blessed land. First, because of its geographic position in the Mediterranean. Second, for its history and all the different… — Marcello Giordani Copy Share Image
“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
“the essence of tragedy is time, or rather the lack of it. There is no problem in any Greek tragedy that could… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
![“Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans fire. He's chained to a rock and bemoaning his fate and saying, "I gave you everything. By giving you fire, I gave you blind hope. By giving you a little light that…” quote by Torquil Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/362/torquil-campbell-28620_art_blind-hope-blind-hope-is-all-we-have-the_1049058.jpg)
