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Tragedy Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- 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.
- 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…
- After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not…
- It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the…
- There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
- I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
- There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
- Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
- The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
- Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
- For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about…
- Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
- Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or…
- Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
- After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not…
- Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.
- The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
- LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and…
- The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is…
- The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
- In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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- All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained. — John Banville
- The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him,… — William Barclay
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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
- I can't go on. I'll go on. — Samuel Beckett