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  • If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

    Hero   Play   White  
  • 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.

    Hero   Law   Suffering  
    "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("The Greeks and Us"), (p. 21), 1973.
  • To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

    Hero   Faces   Danger  
    Edmond Rostand, Howard Thayer Kingsbury (2004). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Hero   Ignorance   Men  
  • O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

    Jealousy   Envy   Tragedy  
    'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165
  • Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

    Stars   Children   Fall  
  • My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

  • Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

    Hero   Mean   Ends  
  • The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

    Hero   Winning   Play  
  • Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals

    Hero   People   Tough  
    Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.16, Random House
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