Beauty Quote by Oscar Wilde

“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“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 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

“I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.”

— Anne Lamott

“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, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.”

— Aristotle

“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

“You said, ‘Life is a tragedy, but its meaning lies in how we face the tragedy.”

— Ha Jin

“I know I am playing out some tragic Greek play and I´m horrified, but the show must go on.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“That’s the way Greek drama worked.”

— Josephine Angelini

“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