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Tragedy Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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…
- Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.
- 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…
- Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
- I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
- It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
- I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to…
- Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good…
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- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to… — Robert Ballard
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey
- 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
- That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr
- All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story...… — Nina Bawden
- 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