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#tragedy

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #tragedy




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


William Butler Yeats


#being #had #him #irish #joy

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.


Whittaker Chambers


#tragedy #death

I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that your house hasn't burned down, you don't have cancer, and your daughter hasn't been raped or murdered. The bad news is that I ran over your dog. And your son. And his wife. But not before I ran out of gas to achieve all of that.


Jarod Kintz


#bad-news #crazy #death #family #good-news

It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (...): the absurd pretension that human nature could be dominated by the power of the law. Reducing it all to a summary of a few pages, organizing the facts, judging it, archiving it, and forgetting it. That simple. And yet in the silence of that place you could hear the murmur of the written words, of the key players, the screams of the victims, the hatred never forgotten by either party, the pain that never went away.


Víctor del Árbol


#justice-system #law #tragedy #death

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.


Mikhail Bulgakov


#friends #happiness #husband #inspirational #life

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.


David Herbert Lawrence


#away #dissolves #gold #like #strong

Behind every exquisite thing that exists, there is something tragic.” - Lord Henry Wotton.


Oscar Wilde


#beauty #mess #muck #tragedy #beauty

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.


Joyce Carol Oates


#consider #form #highest #highest form #i

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.


Lester B. Pearson


#act #cold #cold war #destruction #during

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.


Sun Ra


#brother #endures #him #his #insane






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