People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy. — Curt Flood Copy Share Image
“Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.” — Sophocles 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
“The world is full of problems far more urgent and relevant than Greek tragedy.” — Anonymous 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
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
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
“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
“Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of… — Claude Calame Copy Share Image
“Greek tragedy operates through the ear. It is through the ear primarily that it enters the eyes, the senses, the mind, the… — Paul Roche Copy Share Image
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“ORESTES: Never shall I see you again. ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes. ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“When it's good, it's the best and most beautiful thing I've ever experienced. So good, that it makes me feel bad for… — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“In theater, that's the whole thing about Greek tragedy. You take the audience through the—like, the realest shit, the tearing out the… — Riley Redgate 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“I believe that the disenchantment of the modern universe is the direct result of a simplistic epistemology and moral posture spectacularly inadequate… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“Well,the hell with you." She natched up her purse. "The hell with both of you." "We love you, Margo." That stopped her.She… — Nora Roberts 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
“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else’s story, though you will certainly be tempted to,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
