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Tag Name "Tragedy" (926)

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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
Xenocrates
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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
Brennan Manning
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Tragedy plus time equals humor.
Marie Osmond
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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
Maya Angelou
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Tragedy is the highest form of art.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
Antonin Artaud
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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Abba Eban
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Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does.
Frederick Lenz
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Tragedy alters everything.
Diane Setterfield
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Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.
Emilie Loring
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Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
Douglas Kennedy
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Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
George Orwell
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Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.
Isak Dinesen
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Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.
Ruta Sepetys
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Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
D. H. Lawrence
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.
Virginia C. Andrews
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Tragedy is a close-up comedy, a long shot.
Buster Keaton
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tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.
Joseph Brodsky
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Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action
Aristotle
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Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it it's losing something you already have.
Mignon McLaughlin
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