Character Quote by Arthur Miller

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

— Edward Abbey

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal…

— Edward Abbey

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

“Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the…

— Oscar Wilde

When we have emotions of fear and pity toward the hero of a tragedy, we explore aspects of our own vulnerability in a safe…

— Martha Nussbaum

“The tragic sense of life is ironically not tragic at all, at least in the Big Picture. Living in such deep time, connected to…

— Richard Rohr

To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not…

— Bertrand Russell

The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not…

— Joseph Addison

It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character.…

— Corin Nemec

For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as…

— Kelsey Grammer

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken…

— Emile Durkheim