Top 27 Quotes About A Tragic Hero
#1. The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.
W. H. Auden
#2. To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero; panache is therefore a timid heroism, like the smile with which one excuses one's superiority.
Edmond Rostand
#3. If I was white I would have been like John Wayne ... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play
Tupac Shakur
#4. Moorcock's interlinked 'Eternal Champion' series is a constant source of enjoyment. Of its tragic hero incarnations, my favourite is 'Elric of Melnibone,' and the best book has to be 'Stormbringer.' And as for that other sword, Excalibur? Pah! Use it to spread your butter.
Neal Asher
#5. For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.
Tori Amos
#6. Romantic haste in drama brings
tears and sighs when the hero dies
but the curtain fall is final
when in life we take the tragic way
The sunset too is a glorious thing
but with it ends the day.
C. P. Klapper
#8. Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.
Nhat Hanh
#9. She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
J.K. Rowling
#10. The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.
Mason Cooley
#11. The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.
Helen Gardner
#12. Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.
Tim Berners-Lee
#13. But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.
Jim Capaldi
#15. The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.
Robert Fagles
#16. And she did what nobody thought of doing ... she consulted Anne.
Jane Austen
#17. The hero, the villain, or modern tragic character. A modern Achilles who inflicts his own arrow. "The Wings of the Seraph
Jeffrey LeBlanc
#18. I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
Ang Lee
#20. Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison
John Marsden
#21. When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#22. It's a good idea to prioritize your life and not making drinking the top priority. I think there are aspects of it that definitely illuminate bad decisions and how they'll negatively affect you.
Madeline Zima
#23. I have brought you a hero's fate, and a hero's fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.
Rick Riordan
#25. In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero's.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#26. The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#27. It was a tragic end to a heroic life.
Chris Kyle
