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Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
But was the woman's death the tragedy, or her life? -- Marissa Meyer
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity. -- Aristotle.
Tragedy, like love, makes people blind. -- J.r. Ward
Tragedy will either destroy you or turn your life around. -- Timothy Pina
A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy. -- Angela Carter
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. -- Tom Cochrane
For every choice there is a tragedy -- Sunday Adelaja
Because the way I figure it, everyone gets a tragedy. -- Robyn Schneider
Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear. -- Aristotle.
Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference? -- Orson Scott Card
Every day there was some new tragedy, some new and inexplicable failure of the ordinary. -- Robert Goolrick
Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now. -- D.h. Lawrence
An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. -- Gerald R. Ford
It's not death
that is tragedy. The path that leads to death is. -- Osaama Shehzad
Tragedy is the common lot of man. 'So many people have lost children' I remind myself. pp 178-179
This tragedy is such an inextricable part of my story that it cannot be left out of an honest record. Suffering - no matter how multiplied - is always individual. p 179 -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. -- Jean Racine
And I found there were myriad definitions of this thing called tragedy that had wormed its way through the history of literature; and the simplest of all was this: that it is the story of a figure who, through some moral flaw or personal failing, falls through force of circumstance to his doom. -- Helen Macdonald
Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues -- Aristotle.
Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher. -- Harlan Coben
A life without tragedy would not be worth living. We -- Edward Abbey
Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless. -- Jean Anouilh
The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love. -- Elizabeth Alexander
Our word Tragedy comes from the greek, tragos-ode: "The song of the goat." Anybody who has ever heard a goat attempt to sing will know why. -- Neil Gaiman
Tragedy is not the second face of the life; but it is the very first face of it! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as any surgeon's blade. -- Kristin Hannah
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. -- Robert F. Kennedy
Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does. -- Frederick Lenz
Getting fired from work is not a tragedy -- Sunday Adelaja
In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy. -- Agatha Christie
Comedy is tragedy revisited. -- Phyllis Diller
How one tragedy affects so many others. -- Kenneth Eade
Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right. -- Amos Oz
Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it. -- Karl Jaspers
Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. -- Susan Sontag
Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing. -- Kylie Tennant
Three-Act Tragedy Death in -- Agatha Christie
Tragedy makes for strange bedfellows. -- Lorraine Heath
A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. -- Josephine Tey
For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things? [27] -- Epictetus
Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us. -- Izzeldin Abuelaish
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
Some foolish people must have a tragedy, for they cannot believe in happy endings -- Isobelle Carmody
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. -- Antonin Artaud
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. -- Robert Shea
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right. -- Peter Shaffer
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves. -- Austin O'malley
Tragedy is the price of glory. -- Dominique Venner
Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken. -- Asghar Farhadi
I consider tragedy the highest form of art. -- Joyce Carol Oates
They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing. -- E. Lockhart
What, then, would be the origin of tragedy? Perhaps joy, strength, overflowing health, overgreat fullness? And -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Tragedy plus time equals humor -- Marie Osmond
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. -- Nicolas Chamfort
There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have to invent anything. There are two items on the menu: comedy and tragedy. -- Eric Drooker
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment. -- Norbert Wiener
It's a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent. -- Beatrice Sparks
The whole school was in shock when he died.
Just six months earlier,
another guy from school died.
Everyone went on about too much tragedy.
Want to know about tragedy?
Come to my house.
A year later, tragedy is still here.
Every damn day, it's here. -- Lisa Schroeder
The only thing which can be regarded as properly tragic is resistance, resistance on the part of a man to whatever it is that oppresses him. -- Isaiah Berlin
Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. -- Jean Anouilh
Tragedies are stories that usually begin fairly happily and then steadily go downhill, until all of the characters are dead, wounded, or otherwise inconvenienced. -- Lemony Snicket
Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised. -- Susan Sontag
I guess some of us are just born with Tragedy in our blood -- Richard Kelly
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews. -- Bertrand Russell
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune -- Susanne Katherina Langer
There is beauty in tragedy. And we all believed! -- J. Limbu
If tragedy never entered our lives, we wouldn't appreciate the magic. -- Nikki Rowe
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me. -- Simone De Beauvoir
Life is not tragic. The tragedy is what people do to themselves and to each other. -- Marty Rubin
If you were to write a story with me in the lead role, it would certainly be... a tragedy -- Sui Ishida
A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature. -- Joseph Addison
Maybe that's life. Trading in one tragedy for a better tragedy. -- Suanne Laqueur
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. -- Orson Scott Card
Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding. -- Robyn Schneider
a person would never wish for tragedy, but there can be a kind of transformation that results. There is an awfulness to it, but also a form of grace. -- Terry Tracy
World history is tragic. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Passion is tragedy-in-waiting -- Connie Brockway
Someone's boyfriend died in a rock-climbing accident in Switzerland: everyone gathered around her, on fire with tragedy. Their dramatic shows up support underpinned with jealousy- bad luck was rare enough to be glamorous. -- Emma Cline
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. -- Salvador Dali
Get thee behind me, tragedy. -- Anne Rice
Life is a tragedy full of joy. -- Bernard Malamud
Tragedy makes you grow up. -- Jane Campion
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways
either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. -- Dalai Lama Xiv
The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted. -- Thomas Harris
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. -- Mel Brooks
Of everything
I have ever endured,
Y
O
U
are
My Favourite Tragedy. -- Meraaqi
The sad vicissitude of things. -- Laurence Sterne
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason. -- George Orwell
Tragedy is the driver of innovation, forcing man to move on and overcome the bonds which hold us back through the ever-present fear. -- Benjamin M. Strozykowski
Did tragedy cause fissures, open them wider
or did tragedy merely turn on the light so you could see the fissure that had always been there? -- Harlan Coben
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. -- Norman Cousins
Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you. -- Mel Brooks
The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act. -- George Bernard Shaw
Middle paths in tragedy are in notably short supply. -- Terry Eagleton
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief. -- Elbert Hubbard
Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable. -- Sarvesh Jain
