Figures Quote by Martin Amis

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

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

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

— Anthony de Mello

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are…

— Maya Angelou

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

— Brennan Manning

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner)…

— Rita Mae Brown

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

— 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

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when…

— Aristotle

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

— Joseph Conrad

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of…

— Jean Racine