Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
I don't temper how I feel. I'm Greek. I've got emotions.
Tragedy is a literary concept.
I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.
It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.
There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness.