Criticism Quote by Joseph Addison

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

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

“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

Tragedy is a literary concept.

— David Hockney

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

— Aristotle

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To…

— Isak Dinesen

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

“The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitable of destiny can…

— William Forster Lloyd

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

— Aristotle

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find themselves at…

— Yanis Varoufakis

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy…

— Joseph Addison