Tragedy Quotes

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity. — Eckhart Tolle
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our… — George Eliot
It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind. — Marcel Proust
It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live. — Erich Fromm
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… — Oscar Wilde
The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's… — Gilbert Adair
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion;… — Arthur Koestler
This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto. — Jacob Lawrence
A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless. — Robert Breault
Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid...… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it. — Jonathan Swift
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and… — Joseph Wood Krutch
A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is… — Susanne Katherina Langer
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that… — Edgar Allan Poe
Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress. — Maya Angelou
If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as… — Richard Le Gallienne
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression… — Elbert Hubbard

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