“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
“But when a god sends harm, no man can sidestep it, no matter how strong he may be.” — Sophocles 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
“Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive” — Euripides 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
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
“Hero,” said Machaon to his sister who was still muttering to her gods. “Please stop. Surely the gods would have heard you… — Sulari Gentill 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
“Life's not a Greek tragedy.' After a long second, I shrugged. 'I mean, if you didn't sleep with your mom by mistake,… — Riley Redgate 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
“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
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
“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
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
“If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as… — Joseph Campbell 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
“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
“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
“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 world is full of problems far more urgent and relevant than Greek tragedy.” — Anonymous 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
“Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
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
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
![“I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just…” quote by Donald Sutherland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0aa/donald-sutherland-14225_actors_i-m-running-out-of-time-and-a-western-is_3194083.jpg)
