“Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.” ThinkingHumansHas BeensFactsSidesHuman BeingsEmotionCenturyKeysElementsIntellectualAspectTragicBeing Human20th CenturyAspects Of Life Author:Bill Viola
“Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another character's shoes and experience things both mundane and tragic. And people don't - like me right now - people aren't necessarily the most eloquent when trying to express their emotions. I guess I feel as a playwright that those people deserve a voice, too, a voice that isn't so articulate that they themselves can no longer identify with it.” PeopleFeelsWritingTryingWellsCharacterAbleVoiceEmotionRight NowEmpathyDeserveShoesLike MeSupposed To BeTragicMundanePlaywrightEloquentDon't Like Me Author:Tracy Letts
“Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.” MindFirstsHumansLongPainLossRaceEmotionConsciousnessDetailsCrowdsHuman RaceTragicDaily LifeLastingThrustRecollectionPiercingsTragic Loss Author:Wallis Simpson
“For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to be emotionally. I don't have to think about the tragic things that happened in my life or the greatest things that happened in my life.” ThinkingNeedsI CanPlaySongEmotionHappenedTragic Author:Queen Latifah
“Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned.” MenHumansDoeHas BeensArtMatterMightArtistEmotionBirthPhilosophicalBlindSeriesMusicalSunsetTragicLogicalWorks Of ArtCategoriesCould Have BeenComposingAugustusMartiansAugustus Caesar Book:Stranger in a Strange Land Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.” WholeSufferingEmotionTakenSourceHeroSceneEssentialsTragedyAddWidePityChiefsProportionTragicIngredientsWoeExceptionalCalamityVaryExtending Author:A. C. Bradley