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In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

Napoleon I

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

George Orwell

Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.

Susan Sontag

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

Susan Sontag

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

James Thurber

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

Alfred North Whitehead

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.

Mel Brooks

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

Angela Carter

At fourteen, you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

Jessamyn West

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