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)