#tragedy

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #artist #craftiness #craftsmanship #crafty

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#tragedy #love

For maybe the first time he could remember, he was very seriously thinking about how to best kill someone he’d never even seen. ↗

— Yukako Kabei

#love #revenge #tragedy #love

Tragedy is not the second face of the life; but it is the very first face of it! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#life

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered? ↗

— Kristina McMorris

#philosophy #philosophy-religion #prayers #tragedy #war

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

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities. ↗

— James Baldwin

#inexorable #life #limits #mysterious #need

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin. ↗

— Lake Bell

#fat #female #find #get #hilarious

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect. ↗

— Walter Hagen

#how #matter #missing #putt #respect

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#american public #ending #happy #happy ending #public