History Quote by Viet Thanh Nguyen

“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.”

— Izzeldin Abuelaish

“Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right — two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people…

— 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

“Tragedy did that—brought people together in ways you could never force.”

— Nancy Naigle

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

— Amos Oz

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

— Peter Shaffer

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

— Kelly M Kapic

“Tragedy was a strong bond, a common denominator that united people in a community of empathy, however different their lives and how they operated…

— Howard Rosenberg

“Tragedy was a commodity like any other. it was meant to be consumed- individually and collectively.”

— Elif Shafak

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

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add:…

— Michael Shermer