Divine Quote by John Milton

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'

— Carlton Cuse

History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of…

— Robert Aris Willmott

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“We can either choose to cling to starring roles in the little-bitty stories of us or opt to exchange our fleeting moment in the…

— Louie Giglio

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of…

— Horace Walpole

Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.

— Emilie Loring

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of…

— Will Durant

The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a…

— A. C. Bradley

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in…

— Asghar Farhadi