Dies Quote by W. H. Auden

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

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because…

— Simone Weil

“...for a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.”

— Orhan Pamuk

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

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

— Edith Hamilton

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“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

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear…

— Aldous Huxley

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

— Aristotle

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

— Robert Wilson

“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He’s written “He dies.” That’s all, nothing more. No fanfare,…

— Dustin Hoffman