Tragedies Quote by Kate Morton

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers…

— Arthur Miller

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is…

— Paulo Coelho

Tragedy is a literary concept.

— David Hockney

“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

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

— Aristotle

“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss.”

— Paulo Coelho

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost…

— Whittaker Chambers

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years…

— Anonymous

“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

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 suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

— Edith Hamilton