Tragic

Famous quotes containing the word tragic:

    Yea, this man’s brow, like to a title-leaf,
    Foretells the nature of a tragic volume.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which belies it, and is so tragic a reminder of the lost age when we human beings branched off and left them: left them to eternal inarticulateness and slavery. Why? their eyes seem to ask us.
    Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

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