Quotes with tragedy

Quotes 101 till 114 of 114.

  • Woodrow Wilson We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • William Butler Yeats We begin to live when we have conceived life as tragedy.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Plato We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Aldous Huxley We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Dean Howells What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • Mario Puzo What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Quentin Crisp Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Bert McCracken Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple -- the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Edgar Allan Poe I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Heywood Broun The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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