“If this were a fairy tale, this would be the part where the fishboy appears and Diana shoots him through the heart.… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
“SHAKESPEARE What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast,… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.” — Helen Gardner Copy Share Image
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of… — W. H. Auden 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
“You care for empresses and queens?” I asked him. “No. For tragic heroines.” “Why them?” “Suffering and courageous women who deserve their… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero; panache… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Aristotle’s most widely-read work is his esoteric treatise on aesthetics, the Poetics. According to his analysis of tragic poetry (a section… — The New York Times Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear… — John Gray Copy Share Image
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive… — Robert Fagles Copy Share Image
“If this were a fairy tale, this would be the part where the fishboy appears and Diana shoots him through the heart.… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“And you don’t know this, but that girl? The one left outside of that school alone? She’s sitting there writing about you.… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
Moorcock's interlinked 'Eternal Champion' series is a constant source of enjoyment. Of its tragic hero incarnations, my favourite is 'Elric of Melnibone,'… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I like to believe I play tragic heroes - characters that are torn between the good and bad, the black and the… — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
