Cost Quote by Whittaker Chambers

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost…

— Whittaker Chambers

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

— Aristotle

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

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

“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

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile…

— Norbert Wiener

Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude...Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and…

— Aristotle

“The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. This inevitable of destiny can…

— William Forster Lloyd

Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain…

— Howard Barker

Tragedy is a literary concept.

— David Hockney

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

— Aristotle

“There is no call for you to get tragic about it. Tragedy is easy enough to contrive. And if you want to be tragic,…

— Cordwainer Smith