#tragedy

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

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

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#birth #gave #land #optimistic #pessimistic

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#breaks #get #instead #tragedy #tree

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#exaltation #into #less #none #nothing

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#come #during #great #makes #national

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts. ↗

— Shirley Hazzard

#lasts #love #tragedy