Ends Quote by Adam Phillips

I like to believe I play tragic heroes - characters that are torn between the good and bad, the black and the white.

— Puneet Issar

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough…

— Terry Pratchett

“All of these heroes had failed to cajole and coerce the masters of America. Their ambition of a better world had been frustrated. This…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

All your heroes have failed you. Yet you try and prevail. Face your torment and dismantle your doubt.

— Hatebreed

“Perhaps Aristotle’s most widely-read work is his esoteric treatise on aesthetics, the Poetics. According to his analysis of tragic poetry (a section on comedy…

— The New York Times

“To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero; panache is therefore…

— Edmond Rostand

“You care for empresses and queens?” I asked him. “No. For tragic heroines.” “Why them?” “Suffering and courageous women who deserve their own immortality.”

— Ronald Frame

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

— Claudius

“the essence of tragedy is time, or rather the lack of it. There is no problem in any Greek tragedy that could not have…

— Mortimer J. Adler

The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him…

— W. H. Auden

“The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.”

— Helen Gardner

“SHAKESPEARE What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more…

— Ronald Carter