Philosophy Quote by Abraham Harold Maslow

“Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.”

— Aristotle

“And in reading, I discovered that the burden of living is the uneven and unlimited allotment of pain. Tragedy is conferred randomly and unfairly.…

— Nina Sankovitch

“Happiness is something that just happens because of the arrangement of circumstances, but joy endures in spite of circumstances.”

— John Hunter

“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”

— Joseph Campbell

“A tragedy is still a tragedy; pain is still pain, even if some insight is gained in the process. We”

— Kelly M Kapic

“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“But life is made of happiness and tragedy in equal proportions, and we will never change that.”

— Jennifer Worth

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their…

— Richard Yates

“We do not hold the belief that this earth is a realm of misery where man is doomed to destruction. We do not think…

— Ayn Rand

“There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has…

— Alexandre Dumas

“By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Tragedy was a strong bond, a common denominator that united people in a community of empathy, however different their lives and how they operated…

— Howard Rosenberg