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- Nov 07, 2020
Tragedy Quotes
Most Famous Tragedy Quotes of All Time!
These lines remind us that missing a small goal is nothing compared to real tragedy, and that hardship has a way of putting everyone on equal footing regardless of status. One quote offers a father's raw grief over his son's accidental death. For more on loss, see Death quotes.
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- People
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Occupation is the Palestinian people's tragedy, but also Israel's present. We must liberate both people from the occupation.
- Chance
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Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.
- Political
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There is something deeply wrong with a political culture which only wants to talk about incarceration in the aftermath of a tragedy.
- Know
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Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.
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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.
- Library
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The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.
- Morality
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
- Important
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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
- Joke
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On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that we should take the tragedy that happened in Newtown and have a full comprehensive dialogue about all issues, whether it has to do with mental health, whether it has to do with the social decline of our young people and some of the things that they are exposed to, whether it has to do with the firearms and guns.
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
Tragedy shows up in both small frustrations and life-altering loss, and this set honors both ends of that spectrum with honesty. Continue with Life and Comedy quotes for contrasting perspectives.