Tragic

Famous quotes containing the word tragic:

    In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
    Constance Rourke (1885–1941)

    Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.
    Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)

    The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.
    —V.S. (Victor Sawdon)