Irony Quote by Hugh MacLennan

But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any…

— Hugh MacLennan

“Such explanations assume that some good outcome can nullify or justify the pain, but this is not so. A tragedy is still a tragedy;…

— Kelly M Kapic

“he explains that tragedy’s most cruel lesson is not that human beings are flawed, or that fate can be unkind, but that no one…

— Jean Hegland

“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

“...element of comedy is never completely eliminated from irony. But irony is something more than comedy. A comic situation is proved to be an…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“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

“A tragedy is still a tragedy; pain is still pain, even if some insight is gained in the process. We”

— Kelly M Kapic

“ 'Tragedy admires man. Comedy feels a bit sorry for him.' We think we are kings or queens, masters of the universe or at…

— Debbie Blue

“irony. I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in which…

— Fernando Pessoa

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 shapes us, but it does not have to define us.”

— Susan Van Volkenburgh

“There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.”

— Niall Ferguson