Quotes by Tragedy Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does. Frederick Lenz buddhismtragedywisdom Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down. Gabrielle Roy tragedylife-isfeels Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say. Gabrielle Zevin daddytragedybumps If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning. Gao Xingjian tragedyheropeople The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. Garrett Hardin dramatictragedyessence But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy. Garth Nix tragedyifsadventure Tragedy is the violation of love. Frederick Lenz sexualitybuddhismtragedy What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people. Fyodor Dostoevsky tragedyrealitypeople If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it? Gavin Extence mixturestragedywant Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been different, we could have spared ourselves all kinds of suffering. More recently it's been turned into a comedic trope. As we go forward, tragedy plus time equals comedy... Gavriel David Rosenfeld tragedysufferingfeelings Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure heroism to be spiced with disaster, except of course in sport. It was all very well for Adam Lindsay Gordon to have shot himself, but it would never have done for Don Bradman. Geoffrey Dutton distancetragedysports Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views. Geoffrey Howe achievementtragedyviews The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons. Friedrich Nietzsche tragedyhonorspiritual Every time there's a tragedy, everything goes up. Donald Trump tragedy The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater. George Augustus Henry Sala tragedyplaydrama I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'. George Chuvalo tragedyideasthinking And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy. George Chapman tragedysoulfiction In a true tragedy, both parties must be right. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel partytragedy The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war. George Friedman communitytragedywar Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil. George Gershwin tracktragedyroots«1314151617181920212223»
