Browsing Topic Best Tragic Hero Quotes

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

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

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.

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

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.

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