Quote by Jean Hegland Download Open image ““It is the size of the characters’ desires that helps to make a sad story a tragedy.”” — Jean Hegland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Don't make all of your sadness to be a miserable tragedy, Just forget it with your conscious heart and clear mind.” — Rizky Adam Rifai Copy Share Image
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.” — Terry A O'Neal Copy Share Image
“That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a tragedy sends us down the path we’re supposed to be on so we can find what we’re meant to find. It isn’t… — AnnaLisa Grant Copy Share Image
“The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“It’s a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent.” — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero’s.” — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
“There are stories that are true, in which each individual’s tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it’s art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It’s” — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
“Humanism, he continued, leaning toward his colleagues with the zeal of his conviction even as he stumbled over his words, that holds as its… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
“He knows a sweep of gratitude, soft as another voice, and so wide and deep he believes he might drown in it.” — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
“And humanism—that transcendent vision that spans centuries and religions in its celebration of reason, responsibility, art, and examined lives—has been tossed out like old… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
“They do not die ignorant of either their own follies or of life’s worth. Instead, they die in the fullest possible knowledge of who… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
“Beyond us I could see the mountains rising blue and hazy, and I knew I had only to cross them and keep on walking… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
“In some ways we were more remote than strangers because strangers at least have the possibility of yet unmade connections.” — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
“Each … breeze,” he says, watching the ripple of the bright, unfurling leaves, “will be me, missing. You.” Smiling” — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
“It’s a physical urge, stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot that longs… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot… — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
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