Tragedy Quotes
1523 quotes by 1142 authors
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning…
— Aristotle
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the…
— Richard Bach
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Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth…
— Johnny Ball
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It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
— Robert Ballard
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
— Edward Abbey
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All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.
— John Banville
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The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist…
— William Barclay
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the…
— Amelia Barr
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All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible…
— Nina Bawden
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
— John Berger
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
— Samuel Beckett
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I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that…
— Lake Bell
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When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
— Monica Bellucci
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest…
— Tony Blair
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Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that…
— Michael Bloomberg
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
— Erma Bombeck
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The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
— Edward Bond
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To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
— Randolph Bourne
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