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“The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Carlton Cuse

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

— Tom Stoppard

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream…

— Stephen King

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

Disaster movies do us the psychological service of forcing a quick march through the worst that could happen. At the end we see that…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it.

— Leslie Parrish

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

“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 the oldest form of theatre.

— John Ross Bowie

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.

— Bertrand Russell