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The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive) — Jonathan Lethem

Tragedy is an imitation not just of a complete action, but of events that evoke pity and fear. — Aristotle.

The tragedy of mediocrity is that even mediocre people shake their heads and mull over how standard are falling.
- Serious Men — Manu Joseph

The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people. — Martin Luther King Jr.

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy. — Christopher Paul Curtis

For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar. — R.C. Sproul

Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy. — Emilie Loring

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters. — Joanna Trollope

If tragedy never entered our lives, we wouldn't appreciate the magic. — Nikki Rowe

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens? — Arthur Miller

His thoughts are unfathomable & her emotions are all over the place. Oh! The tragedy of Love. — Ankita Singhal

Now we don't celebrate divorce, of course. But we see it as a personal tragedy, not as a scandal in our witness to the gospel. — Russell D. Moore

I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'. — George Chuvalo

Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones. — Lydia Leonard

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. — Joni Mitchell

A healing heart has no time frame. — Nikki Rowe

That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy. — Charles Tart

It isn't. The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. These two elements always go together. — Nicholas Sparks

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. — Anne Lamott

If she's gonna love again, it won't be an eternity but a hard, fast conflagration that leaves everyone else in the embers. — Lindsay Detwiler

The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end. — Ernest Hemingway,

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision. — Helen Keller

Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper. — Kathleen Dowling Singh

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them - that is the tragedy of life. — Henry Miller

And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy. — Charlie Jane Anders

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. — Abraham Maslow

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. — Dean Koontz

Unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe full of direst cruelty That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Macbeth — William Shakespeare

Into every life both tragedy and triumph can fall, and we must learn to meet both with equal serenity. — Aleksandra Layland

Life always begins with triumph but tends to end with tragedy. — Debasish Mridha

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help. — Harold S. Kushner

In childbirth grief begins. — Euripides

We learn from tragedy. Slowly. — Josephine Hart

Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less. — William Shakespeare

Newspapers take peoples' tragedies and force the world to experience all of it. — Rebecca McNutt

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me. — Peter Krause

A tragedy can catch us any time possible; for this very reason, we must catch the life any time possible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. — Terri Garey

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? — Johnny Rich

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means. — Tom Stoppard

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside. — Steven Herrick

There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In Derry such forgetting of tragedy and disaster was almost an art, as Bill Denbrough would come to discover in the course of time. — Stephen King

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Effort without talent is a depressing situation ... but talent without effort is a tragedy. — Mike Ditka

You may not have pulled the trigger, but you helped cause the tragedy. — Jennifer Brown

This is not a tragedy. I am used up. — Richard A. Hawley

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see — Bob Seger

Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other. — Neale Donald Walsch

It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind. — Marcel Proust

When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. — Chris Hadfield

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have. — Eric Idle

And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another. — Vasily Grossman

Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING? — Justine Bateman

Calculated risk is an opportunity;
careless risk a potential tragedy. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. — Jean Racine

When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy. — Debasish Mridha

That is the tragedy of everyday life: when you are in it, you can never see your self clearly. — Jeff VanderMeer

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it. — Philip Kerr

I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology. — Andrew Sarris

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse. — Dee Remy

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not. — Vance Havner

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way. — James Mangold

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs. — Joseph Stowell

Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life. — Lindsey Davis

In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy. — Agatha Christie

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice — Mortimer J. Adler

Let your Tragedy Make You. Not Break You.
-Trudy Love
Learning to Live
R.D. Cole — R.D. Cole

Perhaps it is both the tragedy of life and the blessing of life that most moments only happen once. — Glenn Haybittle

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member. — Ann Brashares

God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees. — Shannon L. Alder

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy. — Eric Drooker

Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama. — Maryln Schwartz

This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.
This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. — Rachel Higginson

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? — Christopher Marlowe

Sometimes, tragedy is the only wake-up call. — Redd Kaiman

I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy. — Melissa McCarthy

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph. — Tony Snow

Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy. — Anne Fortier

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets. — Patti Smith

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief. — Anne Carson

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one. — Theodore Roosevelt

Life is not tragic. The tragedy is what people do to themselves and to each other. — Marty Rubin

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless. — Jean Anouilh

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. — Marty Rubin

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. — Heywood Broun

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy. — Carter Burwell

All hero's are born out of the embers that linger after the fire of great tragedy.
Children of Ankh series — Kim Cormack

In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour. — E. Lockhart

Short on glamour and long on tragedy. — Quentin Reynolds

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians. — Rand Paul

There was something magnificent in dire tragedy, in the terror of it, in the necessity which it laid upon everybody to behave nobly and efficiently. — Arnold Bennett

Love, like life, isn't a tragedy or a fairy tale - it's both. — Jeannine Allison

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you. — Mel Brooks

Life is nothing but surprises. Even our tragedies turn out different than we expect. — Marty Rubin

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