My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly… — Hayley Atwell 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
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 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 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'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane… — Werner Herzog 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
“Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“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
“PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who… — Aeschylus 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
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 told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.” — Anne Lamott 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
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
“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
“AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate! CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
