"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

#People Quotes #Quality Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.”

Source : Alfred Hermann Fried (1918*). “International Co-operation”
“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”

Source : Carol Ryrie Brink (2011). “Caddie Woodlawn's Family”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
“There are some things you only learn through experience.”
“Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people”
“I should probably start with the blood.”

Source : Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.13, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I'm Teoish," Sarene said, successfully spearing something that looked like a marinated piece of shrimp. "We're all this tall." "Father's Teoish too, Kaise," Daorn said. "And you know how tall he is." "But father's fat," Kaise pointed out. "Why aren't you fat too, Sarene?”
“Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.”
“Most goals are scored between the posts.”

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