Quotes with tragedy

  • People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
  • Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
  • Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.
  • There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
  • All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
  • That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
  • Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
  • The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
  • The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
  • I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
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  • Sholem Aleichem Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
    Sholem Aleichem
    Yiddish author and playwright (1859 - 1916)
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  • Oscar Wilde Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Oscar Wilde All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Shirley Hazzard Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • W. M. Lewis The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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  • Ezra Pound There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Joseph Stalin A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
    Joseph Stalin
    Sovjet politician (1878 - 1953)
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  • Aristotle A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Barnett Newman Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Bull fighting is not a sport. It was never supposed to be. It is a tragedy.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Eric Gill Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it - that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
    Eric Gill
    English sculptor and typeface designer (1882 - 1940)
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  • Carol Burnett Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Angela Carter Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • John Masefield Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • Norman Cousins Death is not the ultimate tragedy in life. The ultimate tragedy is to die without discovering the possibilities of full growth.
    Good Housekeeping November 1989, p. 92
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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