T Quotes
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“Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.”
Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller
“Tragedy follows those who cannot accept their true destiny.
—Crime and Punishment in a Reunified Amadera, by Fiennes de Marta”
Source: The Midnight Star
“Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.”
Source: Melody
“Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.”
“Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason. His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return, and because somehow, he did not remember how, she had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty that was private and unalterable. Such things, he saw, could not happen today. Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, or deep or complex sorrows. All this he seemed to see in the large eyes of his mother and his sister, looking up at him through the green water, hundreds of fathoms down and still sinking.”
Source: 1984
“Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.”
“tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.”
“Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.”
“Tragedy is a conspiracy created by your soul so that you abandon your body and die.”
“Tragedy is a constant rather than the exception”
Source: Don't Forget the Girl
“Tragedy is a disaster; but desperation after that tragedy is a much greater disaster!”
“Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.”
“Tragedy is a literary concept.”
Source: Art & Design
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
“Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.”
“Tragedy is actually untimely comedy”
“Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.”
Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke
“Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action”
Source: Poetics
“Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.”
Source: The Poetics of Aristotle
“Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies.
If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life.”
Source: Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
“Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.”
“Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.”
“Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!”
“Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.”
Source: Forward to peace: text of the address in the twenty-third plenary session of the Gerneral Assembly of the United Nations, Monday, 8 October, 1968
“Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”
Source: The play as theater
“Tragedy is so personal, but it doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened before, to someone, somewhere—it’s what helps us to understand and bring solace to others, knowing something of what they feel.”
Source: To Die But Once
“Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.”
“Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.”
Source: The Wisdom of Tenderness: What happens when God's firece mercy transforms our lives
“Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.”
“Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.”
“Tragedy is the highest form of art.”
“Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”
Source: Frida Kahlo: un homenaje
“Tragedy is the violation of love.”
“Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.”
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
“Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.”
“Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun.”
“Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable.”
“Tragedy makes you grow up.”
“Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.”
“tragedy of a young heart is that they feel too much”
“Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.”
Source: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
“Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.”
“Tragedy, on this view, is the exhibition of that convulsive reaction; and the fact that the spectacle does not leave us rebellious or desperate is due to a more or less distinct perception that the tragic suffering and death arise from collision, not with a fate or blank power, but with a moral power, a power akin to all that we admire and revere in the characters themselves. This perception produces something like a feeling of acquiescence in the catastrophe, though it neither leads us to pass judgement on the characters nor diminishes the pity, the fear, and the sense of waste, which their struggle, suffering and fall evoke.”
Source: Shakespearean Tragedy
“Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.”
“Tragedy plus time equals humor.”
“Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.”