Accepting Quote by Haruki Murakami

“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do…

— Haruki Murakami

“Listen, Kafka. What you’re experiencing now is the motif of many Greek tragedies. Man doesn’t choose fate. Fate chooses man. That’s the basic worldview…

— Haruki Murakami

“But irony deepens a person, helps them mature. It's the entrance to salvation on a higher plane, to a place where you can find…

— Haruki Murakami

“Aristotle defined tragedy as a terrible outcome arising from a person’s fatal flaw— a flaw that, had it been fixed, instead would have led…

— Ray Dalio

Tragedy is a literary concept.

— David Hockney

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

— Aristotle

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

— Haruki Murakami

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

— Aristotle

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

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

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

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile…

— Norbert Wiener