"Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right."

Tragedy, Right

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"Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right."

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"How one tragedy affects so many others."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Tragedy, Impact, Connection, Suffering

"How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June" . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that-for that-I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Tragedy, Youth, Aging, Desire, Soul

"The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Tragedy, Irony, Virtue, Humanity

"She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:--"And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you."She tried to smile once more and expired."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Tragedy, Love, Death, Sacrifice, Sorrow

"Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs, the country ravished daily by new hordes, all his neighbors taken out and shot - he could accept it all more easily than he dared to admit. But the grief implicit in Tereza's dream was something he could not endure."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Tragedy, Grief, Dream, Loss, Emotion

"A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Tragedy, Calamity, Old

"She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had loved him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

Tragedy, Love, Death, Regret, Faith

"Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Tragedy, Sorrow, Pleasure, Emotion

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Tragedy, Life, Death, Loss

"It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy."

John Dyer, American Poet

Tragedy, Wishing

Explore more quotes by Amos Oz

"Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims."

Family, Children, Conflict, Past, Victims

"One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same."

Conflict, Deep, Fact, Sea

"I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world."

Family, World

"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."

Diplomacy, Draft, France, Israel, Majority

"Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself."

Ignorance, Israel, Religious, World

"I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips."

Love, Promotion

"The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic."

Labor, Party

"On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered."

Values, Parents

"I recommend the art of slow reading."

Art, Reading

"But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country."

Balance, Country, Doves, Hawks