1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

The whole world should feel that this tragedy is its own.

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Comedy = tragedy + time.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.