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• A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Stupid, Night

  "Duma Key". Book by Stephen King, January 22, 2008.

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• It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

  Joyce Cary

  Knowledge, Men, Political

  Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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• The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Goal, Achievement, Important

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• It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Lying, Goals Dreams, Mind

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• The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Lying, Weight Loss, Goal

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• Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

  Tom Cochrane

  Betrayal, Integrity, Betrayed

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• This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

  Horace Walpole

  Love, Failure, Thinking

  Letter to Anne, Countess of Upper Ossory, 16 Aug. 1776

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• Comedy is tragedy plus time.

  Carol Burnett

  Life, Happiness, Time

  Carol Burnett (2016). “In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox”, p.112, Crown Archetype

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• Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

  Joe Paterno

  Softball, Sports, Running

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• Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Procrastination, Garden

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

  Dalai Lama

  Strength, Real, Painful Experiences

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• The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

  Jean Cocteau

  Misunderstood, Poetic, Worst

  Le Coq et l'Arlequin (1918) in Le Rappel ... l'ordre (Recall to Order, 1926) p. 20

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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.

  Aristotle

  Action, Ends, Middle

  Aristotle, Demetrius (of Phaleron) (1953). “Aristotle: the Poetics: "Longinus": On the Sublime. Demetrius On Style”

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• The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Kings, People

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• The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.

  William Mather Lewis

  Inspirational, Sad, Break Up

  "Abiding Values".

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• What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

  William Dean Howells

  Theatre, Want, Happy Endings

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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

  History, Greek, Ends

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• When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

  Samuel Johnson

  Suffering, Firsts, Calamity

  "Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson".

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• The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

  William Barclay

  Men, Knowing, World

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• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  Flip Wilson

  Motivational, Success, Positivity

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• Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Mean, Alive

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• The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

  William Feather

  Ambition, Ability, My Ambition

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• A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

  Jean Racine

  Sadness, Blood, Feeling Sad

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• Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Sarcastic, Laughter, Laughing

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