18th century Quote by Harry Lennix

My view is that "A Small Oak Tree Runs Red" is about putting people 'on the record,' who otherwise would have been forgotten, as…

— Harry Lennix

“tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it’s art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It’s”

— Jean Hegland

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of…

— Jean Racine

“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

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

— Edith Hamilton

“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

“the suffering experienced here on earth is but for a moment, and it pales in comparison to the glory which will be revealed.”

— Cassandra Baker-Durham

“For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed is sweeter…

— Herman Melville

“Important events — whether serious, happy or unfortunate — do not change a man's soul, they merely bring it into relief, just as a…

— Irene Nemirovsky

“That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and…

— George Eliot

“But for us the tragedy was but just beginning; as in the case of other wounds the pain was drugged at the moment, and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Pleasure, scarcely in one instance, is ever able to reach ecstasy and rapture; and in no one instance can it continue for any time…

— David Hume