Tragedy Quotes

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. — Oscar Wilde
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. — Billy Wilder
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. — Flip Wilson
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and… — Steve Wozniak
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. — William Butler Yeats
Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race… — Michael Eric Dyson
When tragedy strikes, or even when it looms, our families will have the opportunity to look into our hearts to see whether we know what… — Henry B. Eyring
This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the… — Evgeny Morozov
Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do? — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. — W. Somerset Maugham
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life… — Mother Teresa
Comedy = tragedy + time. — Carol Burnett
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy. — William Shakespeare
You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. — Annie Proulx
In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and… — Mark Twain
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but… — Ayn Rand
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents. — Carl Jung
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are… — Rebecca Solnit
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people… — Neil Gaiman
Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life,… — David Mamet
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, -… — W. E. B. Du Bois
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. — Thomas Carlyle

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