Quotes with tragedy

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  • Margaret Sackville Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
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  • Abba Eban Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Horace Walpole Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Charlie Chaplin Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Joe Paterno Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
    Joe Paterno
    American Football coach
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  • Brad Sherman My positions on gun safety have remained consistent over the years, and have been on my website for years. Whether I'm in a tough re-election race, an easy re-election race, or if it isn't an election year, whether there's a high-profile tragedy in the news or otherwise, my position remains unchanged and on my website.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Edith Hamilton 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
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Beck Oh, the tragedy and the anguish. You just gotta Rage Against the Appliance, man. The toast is burning and you just gotta rip it out and free it before it fills the house with smoke. Rage Against the Toaster.
    Spin magazine, July 1994
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Josef Stalin One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
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  • Jacques Barzun Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
    Jacques Barzun
    French-American historian (1907 - 2012)
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  • Amy Tan 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.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Lenny Bruce Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Campbell Brown Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Antonio Guterres Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
    Deborah Amos on Syria’s Refugee Crisis (2013)
    Antonio Guterres
    Portuguese politician and UN Secretary General (1949 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alfred de Vigny The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Tom Stoppard The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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