Quotes About Greek Tragedies

#1. Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront the loss of home, parent, friends and fondest pets, these films imposed shock therapy on four-year-olds.

Richard Corliss

#2. I've always been interested in the Greek tragedies. A few years back, I re-read a translation of the 'The Oresteia,' and that stayed with me, and slowly this idea of using some of those old legends and plays to tell a new story about modern urban life began to form.

Peter Milligan

#3. I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

Nicholas Sparks

#4. Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

John Berger

#5. In Dune and Dune Messiah, he [Frank Herbert] was cautioning against pride and overconfidence, that form of narcissism described in Greek tragedies that invariably led to the great fall.

Brian Herbert

#6. I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.

Joseph Boyden

#7. It's all very Greek, isn't it?" I quipped. "Prophecies, tragedies, destinies. Just like in all those old mythology books we read over the years." Fletcher shrugged. "Hard to beat the classics.

Jennifer Estep

#8. I would never make a lion, I knew that; but I might pick up a small gain here and there in the attempt.

Saul Bellow

#9. Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

Graham Greene

#10. I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

Maggie Smith

#11. In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the subjection of others.

Christopher Hitchens

#12. A stone is frozen music

Pythagoras

#13. Boys are stupid and girls are trouble.
Truer words were never spoken.

Michelle Hodkin

#14. For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

Dominic West

#15. I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea."

Eva Mendes

#16. Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as to perceive more clearly that unfathomable, mysterious core that is the source of their beauty.

Richard L. McGuire