Quotes with tragedies

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  • Martin Luther King The worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Jean Genet We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • E. M. Cioran What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bill Simmons You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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