#tragedy

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. ↗

— Robert Shea

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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt. ↗

— Lalla Ward

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The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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