Quotes with tragedy

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  • Aristotle The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • A. N. Wilson The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Horace The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Barbara Stanwyck There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
    Barbara Stanwyck
    American actress, model and dancer (1907 - 1990)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Claude This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Salvador Dali This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Horace This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Horace Walpole This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Bobby Ghosh To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
    Bobby Ghosh
    Indian-born American journalist and commentator
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  • William Butler Yeats To me the supreme aim is an act of faith and reason to make one rejoice in the midst of tragedy.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • D'Amato Cus To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
    D'Amato Cus
    American boxing manager and trainer
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  • Arnold Beisser 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.
    Arnold Beisser
    American psychiatrist (1925 - 1991)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Carlton Cuse Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Abba Eban Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Mel Brooks Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
    Mel Brooks
    American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer (1926 - )
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  • Antonin Artaud Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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