Top 28 Tragic Hero Quotes
#1. If I was white I would have been like John Wayne ... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play
Tupac Shakur
#2. 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
#3. The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.
Helen Gardner
#4. 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
#5. The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.
Mason Cooley
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Pain gettin' cum spackle out of your pubes once it dries solid, you know.
Mark Alders
#9. 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
#10. Peace is neither taken nor given, only recognized within.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. When in doubt, be simple. Your life purpose should be an easy target to conceive sometimes all it takes is a simple act of courage to get you there.
Omar Al-Attas
#12. And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl ... there's a little voice that say, 'I wonder where he would go ... ' ... if it hadn't been for his head ...
Bill Cosby
#13. It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.
Scott Belsky
#14. She has seen a part of me I needed to keep personal, yet her eyes have calmed me. She has drawn out my humanity. I'm fighting for revenge, and she is fighting for survival. It's a toxic mix.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#15. I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,
To share with me in glory any more:
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere;
William Shakespeare
#16. She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
J.K. Rowling
#17. For a man can win nothing better than a good wife, and nothing more painful than a bad one.
Hesiod
#18. We fear the monster's capacity for evil because we recognize it in human hearts.
Nick Sagan
#19. Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.
Holly Valance
#21. The hero, the villain, or modern tragic character. A modern Achilles who inflicts his own arrow. "The Wings of the Seraph
Jeffrey LeBlanc
#22. 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
#23. Look, I was only given a year or two to come up with tunes for this record, and when all but eight of them were thrown out for riotous behaviour, I got a bit ticked off; wouldn't you?
Alan Gorrie
#24. Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.
Max Anders
#25. I have brought you a hero's fate, and a hero's fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.
Rick Riordan
#26. In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero's.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#28. It was a tragic end to a heroic life.
Chris Kyle
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