#tragedy

We make choices every day, some of them good, some of them bad. And if we are strong enough, we live with the consequences. ↗

— David Gemmell

#dramatist-quotes #inspirational-quotes #tragedy #inspirational

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. ↗

— Maxwell Anderson

#essence #even #hero #play #regeneration

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#famine #future #human #in the past #instead

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#call #closer #commitment #concentration #emotion

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. ↗

— Henry Miller

#desperation #face #look #nobody #passing

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#complex #emotions #europeans #experiencing #handle

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#life #make #neither #tragedy #you

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. ↗

— John Mortimer

#minute #per #played #revolutions #thousand

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right. ↗

— Amos Oz

#clash #definition #right #tragedy #well

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything. ↗

— George Pataki

#after #anything #appreciation #ever #freedom