Quotes about tragedy
tragedy stuff comedy
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. Jeff Bridges
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There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures. F. Scott Fitzgerald
tragedy masters crumbs
Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs! Friedrich Nietzsche
tragedy sensuality tragic
Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.
tragedy situation equal
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life. Henry Miller
tragedy way endless
I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless. Helen Keller
tragedy needs gone
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 life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? George Eliot
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This is a tragedy that should not have happened. Mark Rosenker
tragedy flawless clean
Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless. Jean Anouilh
tragedy deceit reason
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
tragedy watches life-is
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped. Myles Munroe
tragedy different comedy
Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody. Mike Birbiglia
tragedy castles comedy
There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy. Nathan Fillion
tragedy farce doe
Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago. Julian Barnes
tragedy height looks
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. Irvin D. Yalom
tragedy morality tales
History is a tragedy, not a morality tale. I. F. Stone
tragedy billionaire
I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy. J. K. Rowling
tragedy heard
Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard? Patrick Ness
tragedy alive said
It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive. Patrick Rothfuss
tragedy stories love-story
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. Nicholas Sparks
tragedy misery determined
I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him. Nelson Mandela
tragedy comedy
I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. Olivia Thirlby
tragedy tao inspired
The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy. Olivia Wilde
tragedy bores delightful
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
tragedy plus
Humor is tragedy plus time. Mark Twain
tragedy world growing
That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you. Mary Roberts Rinehart
tragedy financial mismanagement
Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it. Marvin J. Ashton
tragedy weight events
With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 9/11 did. Gilbert Gottfried
tragedy half way
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. George Orwell
tragedy shells way
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell. Milan Kundera
tragedy needs emotion
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? Joni Mitchell
tragedy comedy outlook
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight. James Thurber
tragedy would-be insects
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? Emile M. Cioran