Imitation Quote by Aristotle

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a…

— Aristotle

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents…

— Aristotle

Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their…

— Bernard Williams

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is…

— Paulo Coelho

Tragedy is a literary concept.

— David Hockney

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

— Patrick Marber

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost…

— Whittaker Chambers

The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see…

— A. C. Bradley

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone…

— George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things happen to…

— Derek Walcott

“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

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years…

— Anonymous