Quotes on “Tragedy” 6 Best Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status in English.

Tragedy Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status

 

 Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude, effecting through pity and fear, the proper katharsis or purgation of emotion.

  Aristotle

 

 The aim of tragedy is by plausible speeches and actions, to move and astonish the audience, but only temporarily.

 Polybius

 

 Tragedy must be something bigger than life, or it would not affect us. In nature, the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak, and speak with dignity too.

 Lord Chesterfield

 

 The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction; if we thought murders and treasons real they would please no more.

 Samuel Johnson

 

 In this world there are only two tragedies: one is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst; the last is a real tragedy.

 Oscar Wilde

 

 The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Tom Stoppard

 

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