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.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
“From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero.”
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle
We can only begin to live when we conceive life as tragedy.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.