Quotes about Tragic Hero

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. Votes: 5

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. Votes: 4

If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play Votes: 4

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. Votes: 4

The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win. Votes: 4

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 Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 3

She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring. Votes: 0

The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world. Votes: 0

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero. Votes: 0