“In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. George Meredith
“A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.Stephen King
“Just when we are safest, there’s a sunset touch, A fancy from a flower bell, someone’s death, A chorus ending from Euripides. Robert Browning
“Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will be—the tragedy of the bedroom.Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.W.B. Yeats
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess.Thomas Hardy