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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 essence of Macbeth is seeing a great and intelligent man succumb to the forces of darkness. What gives the tragedy
— William Shakespeare
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Man's invention of God is nothing short of a full-blown tragedy.
— Abigail Landsbrook
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
— Havelock Ellis
The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.
— G.K. Chesterton
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
— Germaine Greer
Did it really have to be like this?that the source of Man's contentment becomes the source of his misery?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The tragedy of war is that it uses mas's best to do man's worst.
— H. E. Fosdick
I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.
— Charles Jencks
For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself. — D.H. Lawrence
The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.
— Heywood Hale Broun
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
— Vaclav Havel
The remoteness of nature reveals the tragedy of man's isolation and his weakness in the face of vast, impersonal forces.
— John F. Lynen
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
And in the vine of the divine, There is a fine line;
Between tragedy and comedy,
That a man cannot define. — Stephan Attia
The tragedy in a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.
— Jocelyn Murray
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
— Barnett Newman
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
— Saul Alinsky
The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.
— D.H. Lawrence
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
— Arthur E. Morgan
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. -Albert Schweitzer
— Albert Schweitzer
Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man
— John Morley
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
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
— Loren Eiseley
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