#tragedy

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing close around the characters who live and breathe on the pages.But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage, and you cannot let go or turn the course aside. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #tragedy #tessa-gray

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

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#delightful #i #merely #out #simply

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fertile-soil #plant #recovery #seeds #success

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#death #dumb #evolution #higher #nothing

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#funny #interview #tragedy #funny

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#anger #any #anyone #come #cope

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#going #help #support #tragedy #wage

Tragedy is a literary concept. ↗

— David Hockney

#literary #tragedy