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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

The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent. — Larry MacPhail

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

To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors. — Luiz Bolognesi

Although we are never glad when tragedy visits, we can be aware and seize the opportunity to do good in this world, even in the midst of tragedy. — Jim Rohn

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

How much tragedy has to happen before I split wide open?
Sam Hughes — Alisa Mullen

That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything. — Charles Coburn

Virtue is knowledge; man sins only from ignorance; he who is virtuous is happy. In these three basic forms of optimism lies the death of tragedy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The great tragedy of segregation isn't so much that we see less of each other but that in separating from each other we see less of God. — Tullian Tchividjian

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I couldn't remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn't put a book down, and that was a tragedy. — Shannon Hale

It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save. — Reinhard Bonnke

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn't understand. And it ended in tragedy. — Jeff MacNelly

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

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection. — Henry Adams

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

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures. — Bryant McGill

These are a few of my favorite things. — Oscar Hammerstein II

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

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

That's the tragedy of falling in love; it brings with it the potential for loss. — Sarah Rayner

Misunderstanding and distrust - the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning. — Carmen DeSousa

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. — Jeannette Walls

We cannot institutionalize helping the "victims" of personal disasters. — Thomas Szasz

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning. — Robin Roberts

The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment. — Joanne Woodward

I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly. — Simone De Beauvoir

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is. — James Lee Burke

Nazis were raiding French homes, looking for Jewish children. The tragedy of the year before was that Jean Moulin, one of the famed — Danielle Steel

We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us! — David Trumble

In spite of all the tragedy and cruelty, all humans have a kind heart, great spirit, and an insatiable love for the humanity. — Debasish Mridha

The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life. — Corliss Lamont

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life. — Jonathan Nolan

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill. — William Easterly

The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy. — Mark Spitz

But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality. — Leila Sales

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies. — Marianne Williamson

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

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. — Jacky Ickx

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. — W.B.Yeats

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth — Winston Churchill

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. — Joe Paterno

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray. — Paul Dano

History is more of a tragedy than it is a morality tale. — Christopher Hitchens

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle. — John Adams

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions" -Agatha Swanburne — Maryrose Wood

It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser, though he has lost and I think that is the lesson of tragedy. — Alain De Botton

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness. — Bernard Malamud

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like the roller coaster of life ... novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop. — Carmen DeSousa

A gripper of a read ... Silence revives the cliff's-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory's death. — Bruce Barcott

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world. — Paulo Coelho

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

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall? — Henry Blackaby

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. — Wislawa Szymborska

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. — Jeff Bridges

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

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

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. — Susan Sontag

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

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

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

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

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