Quotes About Tragedy

Othello's suicide is profoundly moving; but it does not make us feel suicidal. What moves us is the way in which Shakespeare (and Verdi) made sense out of tragedy by making it part of an artistic whole. As Nietzsche realized, even tragedy is an affirmation of life.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

In the 1920s and 1930s Germany was the leader of the world in most areas you could name—the physical sciences, historical scholarship, music, philosophy, public education. The most sobering fact about the Holocaust is that it was there, and not in some backward, underdeveloped country, that it occurred.

A la vera de la fuente quedó Alvargonzález muerto. Tiene cuatro puñaladas entre el costado y el pecho, por donde la sangre brota, más un hachazo en el cuello.

Un buhonero que cruzaba aquellas tierras errante, fue en Dauria acusado, preso y muerto en garrote infame.

Burasi, Amerikali yazar Edgar Lee Masters'in Spoon River'ini olusturan siirsel oykulerinin aksine, trajik olmayi amaclamayan, normal yasama ait, gundelik olaylarla yetinen kucuk bir komedidir. Ama huzunlu bir yani da eksik degildir; cunku arabacinin en gosterissiz mzarindan devlet memurunun en ayricalkli mezarina kadar butun yasamlari ozetleyen parlak renkli haclarin paylastiklari bir sey vardi: Hepsi baska bir hayat surmek isterdi. Yazik ki hayat bir tanedir.

As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into the wheel rather than away from it. A gentle crunch. The car passes. A shape like a discarded napkin left in the road. Still perfectly white, no red stains, but bearing no relation anymore to the shape of a bird. A trail of white feathers flutter down the road after the car. The suddeness is very upsetting. That gentle crunch.

The comedy stems out of the tragedy only ; a person who has not seen the humiliation, harassment and pain in life can't be truly a good comedian.

The producer of the film Nariman Irani passed away six months before the release and Chandra Barot had no money for the film's promotions.

Cyrano de Bergerac is a lesson in living life large.

I guess every disaster, every tragedy in the world, my lad, is caused by someone's selfishness and refusal to recognize the rights of others.

Five men went forward, Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Oates and Seaman Evans. They reached the Pole on January 17 to find that Amundsen had reached it thirty-four days earlier. They returned 721 statute miles and perished 177 miles from their winter quarters.

But not unusual, for good girls sometimes come to bad ends.

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

Cherry blossoms are more beautiful when the blood of the dead stains the flowers from grass below.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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 an end.

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.

Without action there cannot be a tragedy; there may be without character.

Tragedy advanced by slow degrees; each new element that showed itself was in turn developed. Having passed through many changes, it found its natural form, and there it stopped.

Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the actions. Hence the incidents and the plot are the end of a tragedy; and the end is the chief thing of all.

Tragedy--as also Comedy--was at first mere improvisation.