#tragedy

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy. ↗

— John Dyer

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There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#child #death #get #life #like

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#eyes #greatness #tragedy #you #your

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#definition #life #tragedy #untouched #yet

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#does #his #like #man #mothers

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.' ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#birth #gave #land #optimistic #pessimistic

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#breaks #get #instead #tragedy #tree

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote. ↗

— Gary Steiner

#domestication #injustice #justice #morality #oppression

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. ↗

— John Guare

#comedy #core #humiliation #tragedy

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#exaltation #into #less #none #nothing