#tragedy

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

— John Mortimer

#minute #per #played #revolutions #thousand

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#her #lot #national #national politics #other

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. ↗

— Barnett Newman

#any #art #death #life #man

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

— Amos Oz

#clash #definition #right #tragedy #well

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#game #heartbreaking #losing #sense #tragedy

A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No one has made any real attempt to recover the loves and the laughter of Elizabethan England. The low dark arches, the low strong pillars upon which Shakespeare's temple rests we can all explore and handle. We can all get into his mere tragedy; we can all explore his dungeon and penetrate into his coal-cellar, but we stretch our hands and crane our necks in vain towards that height where the tall turrets of his levity are tossed towards the sky. Perhaps it is right that this should be so; properly understood, comedy is an even grander thing than tragedy. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#shakespeare #tragedy #dreams

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. ↗

— Jean Racine

#death #enough #filled #majestic #need

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#creativity #die #gift #glorious #life

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

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama