Tragedy Quotes
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Tony Blair
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The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.
Harry Levin
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After all of this, first as a man and a Serb, then as a father, brother and son, and only then as the president of the Serb Republic, I have to say that these nine days of July of the Srebrenica tragedy represent a black page in the history of the Serb pe...
Dragan Cavic
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The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
Subject: War QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations
Kofi Annan
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Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.
Chuck Palahniuk
Keywords: and :: disaster :: dissolution :: evolution :: is :: my :: natural :: of :: part :: toward :: tragedySubject: Disaster Quotes :: Tragedy QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Life`s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
Benjamin Franklin
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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life`s tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger
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The tragedy is when you`ve got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.
D.H. Lawrence
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The greatest tragedy in mankind`s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur Clarke
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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don`t cheat with it.
Ernest Hemingway
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Bill Lovejoy
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We went to this huge, icecream picture palace to see a Bollywood movie. Here we were, with 2,000 Indians watching a film in Hindi, and there was the lowest possible comedy and then incredible drama and tragedy and then break out in songs. And it was three...
Baz Luhrmann
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My father came from Hungary after the tragedy of Yalta, and my mother`s father was a Jew from Salonika . . . we loved France. We didn`t take it for granted.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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This program teaches people that it only takes a single unlucky moment to lead to tragedy, if you come into contact with one really f***ed-up person, they can truly take your life away. [In regards to the Matthew Shepard killing and MTV`s Fight for Your R...
Ian Somerhalder
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I cut my finger. That`s tragedy. A man walks into an open sewer and dies. That`s comedy.
Mel Brooks
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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long shot.
Charlie Chaplin
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Life is made up of a large tragedy and many tiny moments of joy. What I can do is slowly accumulate these tiny moments of joy, and use them to face tragedy. - on the pressures placed on her being in the entertainment industry.
Vicki Zhao
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Life is made up of a large tragedy and many tiny moments of joy. What I can do is slowly accumulate these tiny moments of joy, and use them to face tragedy. - on the pressures placed on her being in the entertainment industry.
Vicki Zhao
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The guys we were stealing from in The Wire are the Greeks. In our heads we`re writing a Greek tragedy, but instead of the gods being petulant and jealous Olympians hurling lightning bolts down at our protagonists, it`s the Postmodern institutions that are...
David Simon
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On hosting the Emmys after the 9/11 tragedy (November 4, 2001): "We`re told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of...
Ellen DeGeneres
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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points...
Laurence Olivier
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Then there was school. I wasn`t a great success: I was shy, not particularly clever, and dyslexic. But thanks to an English master called Quibble-Smith, who gave me a part in a Greek tragedy, I realised that I enjoyed getting into character - I could expr...
Anthony Andrews
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I`d much rather be in a comedy. In my view, comedy wins out in the long run. I`m not sure I`m a good enough actor to play real tragedy, so I bring a comic element to most things as my answer to the world`s problems. I`m not a clown, though. I love goofing...
Will Ferrell
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[on Judy Garland] The most talented woman I ever knew was Judy Garland. She was a great, great comedienne and she could do more things than any girl I ever knew. Act, sing, dance, make you laugh. She was everything. I had a great affection for her. Such a...
Bing Crosby
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It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted. It`s really valuable to gain that, especially at a young age. - Referr...
Adrien Brody
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The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.
Joanne Woodward
