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Image of Paulo Coelho
There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.
- Paulo Coelho
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Image of Philip K. Dick
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.
- Philip K. Dick
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Image of Bob Hawke
Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" - and this present President... It's a tragedy, you know, what's happened there post-Mandela, because he was an iconic figure.
- Bob Hawke
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Image of Jonathan Chait
Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.
- Jonathan Chait
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Image of Mason Cooley
Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Phyllis Diller
Comedy is tragedy revisited.
- Phyllis Diller
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Image of Paulo Coelho
However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.
- Paulo Coelho
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Image of Mason Cooley
Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Charles Colson
To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.
- Charles Colson
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Image of Robert Heilbroner
Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.
- Robert Heilbroner
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Image of George Eliot
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
- George Eliot
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Image of Albert Einstein
The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
- Albert Einstein
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Image of Richard Ford
We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy.
- Richard Ford
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Image of Andrea Dworkin
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.
- Andrea Dworkin
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Image of W. C. Fields
Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.
- W. C. Fields
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Image of Maya Angelou
Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
- Maya Angelou
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Image of Jean Anouilh
Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.
- Jean Anouilh
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Image of F. Scott Fitzgerald
There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Image of Orrin Woodward
Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.
- Orrin Woodward
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Image of Nikki Giovanni
The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
- Nikki Giovanni
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Image of Jean-Luc Godard
In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.
- Jean-Luc Godard
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Image of Aristotle
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
- Aristotle
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Image of John Galsworthy
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
- John Galsworthy
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Image of Ellen Glasgow
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
- Ellen Glasgow
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Elizabeth Gilbert
Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
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Image of Tana French
One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.
- Tana French
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Gilbert Gottfried
With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 9/11 did.
- Gilbert Gottfried
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Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Image of Marvin J. Ashton
Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.
- Marvin J. Ashton
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Image of Oscar Hammerstein II
These are a few of my favorite things.
- Oscar Hammerstein II
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Image of Helen Keller
I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
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Image of Frida Kahlo
Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
- Frida Kahlo
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Image of Pico Iyer
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
- Pico Iyer
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Image of Diana Wynne Jones
By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast!
- Diana Wynne Jones
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Image of Carl Jung
The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.
- Carl Jung
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Image of Dean Koontz
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
- Dean Koontz
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Image of Stephen King
he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.
- Stephen King
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Image of Sinclair Lewis
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
- Sinclair Lewis
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Image of D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
- D. H. Lawrence
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Image of Milan Kundera
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.
- Milan Kundera
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Image of Stephen Leacock
All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.
- Stephen Leacock
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Image of Shirley Manson
Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.
- Shirley Manson
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Image of Julian Barnes
Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.
- Julian Barnes
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Image of Nelson Mandela
I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.
- Nelson Mandela
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Image of Richelle Mead
..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.
- Richelle Mead
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