Tragedies Quotes
246 Tragedies quotes by 205 unique authors
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She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is…
— Nick Hornby
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One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are
— Henri Nouwen
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People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep…
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.
— Elizabeth McCracken
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Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly…
— Thomas Moore
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Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible…
— Rick Warren
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As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond…
— Naguib Mahfouz
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It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.
— Susan Cain
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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that…
— Aberjhani
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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.
— Virginia Woolf
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I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would…
— Tana French
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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
— George Orwell
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I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone…
— Ilona Andrews
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The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of…
— Michael Gurian
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However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our…
— Paulo Coelho
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There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of…
— Anthony Kiedis
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But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .
— Dan Ariely
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I have realized that the moon did not have to be full for us to love it. That we are not tragedies stranded here beneath…
— Buddy Wakefield
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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
— Agatha Christie
Who Wrote These Tragedies Quotes
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