Confused Quote by Victor Hugo

“there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault…

— Victor Hugo

“Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded…

— Victor Hugo

“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find themselves at…

— Yanis Varoufakis

The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a…

— A. C. Bradley

The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not…

— Joseph Addison

Tragedy is a literary concept.

— David Hockney

“But on the whole the impression was neither of tragedy nor of comedy. There was no describing it. It was manifold and various; there…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

— Louis Sullivan

Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.

— Reggie Jackson

“If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their desperate state…

— Victor Hugo

“All my romances, by some kind of collusion between their heroes, have invariably followed a prearranged pattern of mediocrity and tragedy, or more precisely,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“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