“ In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried. ”
- Ada Louise Huxtable- Copy
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“ Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them. ”
- Juliette Binoche- Copy
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“ None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ”
- Edith Hamilton- Copy
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“ Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. ”
- Clarence Darrow- Copy
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“ The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. ”
- Henry Louis Mencken- Copy
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“ Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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“ The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. ”
- Gilda Radner- Copy
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“ The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
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“ Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. ”
- W. B. Yeats- Copy
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“ Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is he knows everything. ”
- Joyce Cary- Copy
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“ Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole cover and die. ”
- Mel Brooks- Copy
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“ Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. ”
- John Masefield- Copy
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“ It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years — except they had little to do with being a child. ”
- Liza Minnelli- Copy
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“ I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. ”
- Billy Joel- Copy
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“ Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. ”
- Margaret Sackville- Copy
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“ Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. ”
- Joe Paterno- Copy
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“ The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. ”
- Paul Klee- Copy
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“ The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. ”
- Tom Stoppard- Copy
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“ The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
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“ There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time. ”
- William D. Montapert- Copy
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