Ralph Waldo Emerson Tragedy Quotations

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.