posit by W. B. Yeats: “Being Irish, he had an abiding…

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

— William Butler Yeats

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

— Anonymous

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do…

— Haruki Murakami

“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do…

— Haruki Murakami

“As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the…

— William A. Niskanen

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real…

— Shirley Hazzard

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

— Christopher Hitchens

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that…

— Alan Alda

There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had…

— Keeley Hawes

“Writing this, he had reached the pit of despair and he thought that reading it, she would at least begin to sense his tragedy…

— Flannery O'Connor

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile…

— Norbert Wiener

It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity;…

— Howard Barker

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

— Oscar Wilde

“ . . . after twenty centuries of stony sleep, what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be…

— W. B. Yeats

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

— John Berryman