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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

George Orwell

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In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.

Oscar Wilde

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It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

Jean Anouilh

Tragedy
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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar Wilde

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It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

Dorothy Parker

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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Edith Hamilton

Tragedy
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

Tragedy
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

D. H. Lawrence

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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Tom Stoppard

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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Arthur Miller

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The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.

Tragedy
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

George Santayana

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The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Norman Cousins

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Aristotle

Tragedy
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

Tragedy
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tragedy
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Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

D. H. Lawrence

Tragedy
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Antonin Artaud

Tragedy
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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

Tragedy
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

Emil Cioran

Tragedy
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When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.

Samuel Johnson

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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Stephen Vizinczey

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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“It’s all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it’s all right.”

Janet Morris

Love, Passion, Commitment, Tragedy, Obsession

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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

“It’s all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it’s all right.”