Good and evil Quote by Daniel Mendelsohn

“It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have…

— Oscar Wilde

“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“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

“In some ways grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask.”

— Tana French

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

— Karl Marx

“(Precisely because of this power that hope has of making the suffering hold out, the Greeks regarded it as the evil of evils, as…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In theater, that's the whole thing about Greek tragedy. You take the audience through the—like, the realest shit, the tearing out the eyes or…

— Riley Redgate

“The theater of man is not always 'amusing', but it is always theater, and theater can be marveled at even when its content is…

— Tom Robbins

“Listen, Kafka. What you’re experiencing now is the motif of many Greek tragedies. Man doesn’t choose fate. Fate chooses man. That’s the basic worldview…

— Haruki Murakami

“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

— Donna Tartt

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. ‘All men make mistakes,’ said the ancient Greek Sophocles. ‘But a good man yields…

— Ken Follett

“All right, she thought I was a funny little geezer, but my charred Phaethon had impressed her, I was very obviously available, and she…

— Cees Nooteboom