#tragedy

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

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I think art can reflect tragedy. ↗

— John Corigliano

#i #i think #reflect #think #tragedy

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armies #camped #destruction #entered #every

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#man #tragedy #uses #war #worst

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#late #life #old #soon #too

Life is a tragedy full of joy. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#joy #life #life is a #tragedy

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#lives #their #tragedy #two

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. ↗

— Karl Marx

#ending #good #greek #meet #met

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. ↗

— John Masefield

#cannot #commonplace #dare #dislike #exult

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#call #closer #commitment #concentration #emotion