Ancient Quote by George Orwell

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 tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page,…

— Philip K. Dick

“the essence of tragedy is time, or rather the lack of it. There is no problem in any Greek tragedy that could not have…

— Mortimer J. Adler

Since time immemorial we've explored these ideas of tragedy, the things people do for love, the great weight that occurs when love is taken…

— Lisa Joy

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 a literary concept.

— David Hockney

“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

The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally.

— Bob Parr

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. ‘All men make mistakes,’ said the ancient Greek Sophocles. ‘But a good man yields…

— Ken Follett

“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

“In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another...They were things for which it…

— Jhumpa Lahiri