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Image of Sarah Hanson-Young
Tragedies happen, accidents happen.
- Sarah Hanson-Young
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Image of Winifred Holtby
Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.
- Winifred Holtby
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Image of JoAnn Ross
Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.
- JoAnn Ross
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Image of Thomas Harris
The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.
- Thomas Harris
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Image of Yair Lapid
The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.
- Yair Lapid
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Image of Oscar Hammerstein II
It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.
- Oscar Hammerstein II
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Image of Michael M. Honda
The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested
- Michael M. Honda
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Image of Lonnie Bunch
This is not a museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments. It is the museum that says -here is a balanced history of America that allows us to cry and smile.
- Lonnie Bunch
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Image of Eric Drooker
I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.
- Eric Drooker
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Image of Wolfgang Tillmans
What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life.
- Wolfgang Tillmans
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Image of Valerie Sayers
Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.
- Valerie Sayers
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Image of Reuel Howe
Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.
- Reuel Howe
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Image of Signe Baumane
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.
- Signe Baumane
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Image of Emilie Loring
Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.
- Emilie Loring
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Image of Douglas Kennedy
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
- Douglas Kennedy
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Image of Suzanne Giesemann
What to us may seem like a tragedy when it happens eventually can form itself into a gift.
- Suzanne Giesemann
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Image of David Folkenflik
Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity.
- David Folkenflik
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Image of Mignon McLaughlin
Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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Image of William Manchester
It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.
- William Manchester
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Image of Malcolm Lowry
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.
- Malcolm Lowry
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Image of Benjamin E. Mays
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
- Benjamin E. Mays
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Image of Barbara Tuchman
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
- Barbara Tuchman
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Image of William Shakespeare
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Edith Wharton
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.
- Edith Wharton
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Image of J. K. Rowling
I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.
- J. K. Rowling
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Image of Bill Johnson
It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.
- Bill Johnson
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Image of William Butler Yeats
We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.
- William Butler Yeats
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Image of Elie Wiesel
Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.
- Elie Wiesel
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Image of Patrick Rothfuss
It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.
- Patrick Rothfuss
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Image of Louise Hay
A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.
- Louise Hay
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Image of Dan Quayle
I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.
- Dan Quayle
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Image of Chuck Palahniuk
Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.
- Chuck Palahniuk
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Image of Anne Rice
Get thee behind me, tragedy.
- Anne Rice
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Image of James Thurber
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
- James Thurber
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Image of Alfred North Whitehead
Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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Image of Libba Bray
It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.
- Libba Bray
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Image of John Piper
Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
- John Piper
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Image of Henri Nouwen
One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are
- Henri Nouwen
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Image of William Shakespeare
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Myles Munroe
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.
- Myles Munroe
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Image of Rabindranath Tagore
The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Image of Reinhold Niebuhr
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
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Image of Diane Setterfield
Tragedy alters everything.
- Diane Setterfield
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Image of Louise Bourgeois
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.
- Louise Bourgeois
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Image of Susan Sontag
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
- Susan Sontag
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Image of Ellen Page
There’s obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
- Ellen Page
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Image of Nicholas Sparks
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.
- Nicholas Sparks
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Image of Lisa McMann
Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.
- Lisa McMann
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Image of May Sarton
Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?
- May Sarton
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