Tragedy Quotes

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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously.… — Ernest Hemingway
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things… — William Faulkner
It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy. — John Dyer
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's… — Rafael Palmeiro
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. — Benjamin E. Mays
Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you… — Alex Lifeson
If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry. — John Phillips
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. — Horace Walpole
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. — Horace Walpole
One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she… — Lalla Ward
The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness. — Unknown Author
Why don't you climb down off the cross, take the wood to build a bridge, and get over it! — Christopher Titus
The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one. — Anatole Broyard
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I for one believe that not enough has been made of the tragedy of the destruction of 6 million Jews. Somebody has to cry-even if… — Bernard Malamud
...who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from the academies for… — Allen Ginsberg
Tragedy is an imitation of a whole and complete action of some amplitude...Now a whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an… — Aristotle
The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations — Kofi Annan
After all of this, first as a man and a Serb, then as a father, brother and son, and only then as the president of… — Unknown Author
It's not suppose to be this way. The artists, and the scientists, and the poets - none of them fitted in at 17. We're suppose… — Mouth McFadden

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