Tragedy Quotes
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I can't imagine anything that would signal more clearly that life goes on and joy can follow tragedy than your having a much wanted child.
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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
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She had a moment of engulfing sadness about this, about the way that even when we’re living through tragedy, the language we reach for, the only language available to us, is secondhand.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.
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When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
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Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
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Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.
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The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.
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A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.
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By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.
