Tragedy Quotes

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The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts. — Shirley Hazzard
If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor. — Rajneesh
It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired heroism… — Norman Angell
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an… — Jean Genet
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. — Oscar Wilde
All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later. — David Cronenberg
Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws… — Queen Elizabeth II
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see — Bob Seger
The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and… — Cyril Connolly
The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change. — Len Deighton
If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game. — Bobby Fischer
I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one… — Jackie Kennedy
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it… — Kevin Brockmeier
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United… — Elyn Saks
The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on… — Yiyun Li
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking… — Lucy Grealy
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate… — Leonardo DiCaprio

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