Being Quote by Kathryn Lasky

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They…

— John Chancellor

For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as…

— Kelsey Grammer

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.

— Marina Warner

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely…

— Philip Kaufman

In fact she was quite bad and according to Jas she was naughty at school, but no one seems to remember that now she…

— Annabel Pitcher

She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one…

— Anonymous

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

— Aristotle

Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a simple…

— Winston Churchill

You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human.…

— Martin Amis

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those…

— Shirley Hazzard

People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But…

— John Green

Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in…

— Louise Fletcher