Books Quote by Arthur Miller

“There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers…

— Arthur Miller

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the…

— Megan Karasch

“Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope,…

— Matthew Quick

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

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

— Aristotle

Tragedy is a literary concept.

— David Hockney

“The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitable of destiny can…

— William Forster Lloyd

“As a species, tragedy dwells within us all. We push it to the back of our thoughts, but it is never so far gone…

— Logan Kain

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

Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain…

— Howard Barker

I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness,…

— Ayn Rand

“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