#tragedy

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#death #dumb #evolution #higher #nothing

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. ↗

— Jean Racine

#death #enough #filled #majestic #need

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#creativity #die #gift #glorious #life

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#going #help #support #tragedy #wage

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#know #knows #less #man #more

Tragedy is a literary concept. ↗

— David Hockney

#literary #tragedy

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#beautiful #fact #great #great tragedy #hypothesis

This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our next record tragedy, it traditionally will probably change the distribution again and it will get held up again. ↗

— Kerry King

#better #change #couple #distribution #get

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#bad #bad people #clamor #good #good people