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“Butterflies are nature’s tragic heroes. They live most of their lives being completely ordinary. And then, one day, the unexpected happens. They burst from their cocoons in a blaze of colors and become utterly extraordinary. It is the shortest phase of their lives, but it holds the greatest importance. It shows us how empowering change can be.”

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Book:If I Resist

Source: If I Resist

“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.”

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Author:Robert Fagles

“The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“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.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

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

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Author:Adam Phillips

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

“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”

People Interest Deals Hero Tough Tragic Tragic Hero

Book:Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)

Source: Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below”

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Author:Claudius

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

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Author:Tupac Shakur

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

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Book:CYRANO DE BERGERAC

Source: CYRANO DE BERGERAC