#tragedy

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 like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#always #because #behind #characters #hides

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. ↗

— Hypatia

#after #believes #child #fables #fantasies

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out. ↗

— Jonas Salk

#cast #could #i #knew #me

To be the child of a conficted or reputed witch was inherently dangerous; in one pathetic case in Lorraine a young couple were both accused, and it emerged that they had decided to marry after attending an execution at the stake of their respective parents, 'so that they would have nothing to reproach one another with. ↗

— Robin Briggs

#tragedy #witch-hunts #respect

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#between #comedy #difference #else #happening

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. ↗

— Richard Bach

#butterfly #calls #caterpillar #depth #end

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience. ↗

— George P. Baker

#between #clever #comedy #depends #difference