Accidents Quote by A. C. Bradley

“You cannot be a hero unless you are prepared to give up everything; there is no ascent to the heights without a prior descent…

— Karen Armstrong

“The birth of a legend is the death of a hero. Every man wishes to die a hero. A hero’s death is glorious!”

— Tanya Thompson

“What I hoped to accomplish with this final book was to present a character who could exemplify the idea that not all heroes die…

— A.R. Wise

The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a…

— A. C. Bradley

When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?

— Andy Mineo

“At the beginning of a full five-stage Tragedy, the central figure is always part of a community, a network of relationships, linked to other…

— Christopher Booker

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

— E. M. Forster

“The third aspect of the tragic triad concerns death. But it concerns life as well, for at any time each of the moments of…

— Viktor Emil Frankl

“The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if we are…

— Nicola Morgan

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

— Aristotle

“If something terrible happened – such as war, plague or drought – people consoled themselves that ‘We all play a role in some great…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero’s.”

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore