Abstract Quote by Lauren Groff

“The tragedy of man is the difference between what he can be, and what he is.”

— David Grant Urban

“Tragedy shapes us, but it does not have to define us.”

— Susan Van Volkenburgh

“Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”

— Anonymous

“he explains that tragedy’s most cruel lesson is not that human beings are flawed, or that fate can be unkind, but that no one…

— Jean Hegland

“The author is not impartial. Dystopia is not tragedy.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.”

— Aristotle

“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.”

— Horace Walpole

“A tragedy is still a tragedy; pain is still pain, even if some insight is gained in the process. We”

— Kelly M Kapic

“Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.”

— E. Lockhart

“Our minds are a mystery. We all handle tragedy differently.”

— Steena Holmes

“Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.”

— Javier Marías

“If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.”

— Herman Bavinck