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Greek Tragedy Quotes & Sayings

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Our word Tragedy comes from the greek, tragos-ode: "The song of the goat." Anybody who has ever heard a goat attempt to sing will know why. — Neil Gaiman

Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance! — Euripides

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — Billy Joel

Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive — Euripides

My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky. — Hayley Atwell

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once. — Euripides

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll. — Euripides

No one will ever make necessity not happen. — Anne Carson

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. — Dennis Lehane

Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones. — Lydia Leonard

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. — Euripides

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison. — Patricia Neal

PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers — Aeschylus

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus. — Joseph Boyden

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death — Aeschylus

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

It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded. — Oscar Wilde

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy. — Curt Flood

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room. — Anne-Marie Duff

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

In some ways grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask. — Tana French

Old loves are dropped when new ones come — Euripides

It's human; we all put self interest first. — Euripides

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies. — Euripides

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. — Henry A. Kissinger

Argos the greatest tragedy in Greek legend was — Will Durant

To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions" -Agatha Swanburne — Maryrose Wood

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it. — Euripides

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. — Werner Herzog

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

In childbirth grief begins. — Euripides