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• Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

  Patricia Neal

  Greek, Actresses, Deny

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?

  Justine Bateman

  Gun, Air, Doe

  Twitter post from Dec 17, 2012

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• Commander I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ and because I do I can say this. Private Santiago is dead and that is a tragedy. But he is dead because he had no code. He is dead because he had no honor. And God was watching.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Jesus, Believe, Son

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• Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

  Charlton Heston

  Comedy, Wells, Wounds

  Interview with Ken Masugi, ashbrook.org. October 6, 1995.

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• Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.

  Samantha Bee

  Pain, Disappointment, Sleep

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• God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.

  Nick Frost

  Creation, Mankind

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• When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

  Joseph Stalin

  Men, Statistics, Dies

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• This is... one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration. The more successful they’ve been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we’re in danger... it’s almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us.

  Newt Gingrich

  Successful, Guy, Stopping

  "Holy Terror! Newt Gingrich Joked About ‘Allow(ing) An Attack To Get Through’" by Tommy Christopher, www.mediaite.com. January 24, 2012.

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• That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.

  Charles Coburn

  Needs, Rich

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• Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

  Keith Ablow

  Fear, People, Danger

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• All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to democracy. It is essential that governments do all they can to ensure safe conditions for journalists to carry out their work.

  Irina Bokova

  Government, Voice, Democracy

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• Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.

  Michael Robotham

  Loneliness, Love You, Loss

  "Bleed for Me (Joseph O'Loughlin)". Book by Michael Robotham, 2010.

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• Life is a tragedy of nutrition

  Arnold Ehret

  Nutrition, Wellness, Life Is

  Arnold Ehret (2012). “Mucusless Diet Healing System: Scientific Method of Eating Your Way to Health”, p.80, Book Publishing Company

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• The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My dear Olgivanna, she insisted on replacing the lovely canvas and wooden trusses at Taliesin West with steel supports and pink frosted glass. Well, I was too old to care by then. What I decided early on was this: If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Fire, Glasses

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• Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

  Aristotle

  Men, Action, Imitation

  Aristotle, Gerald Frank Else (1970). “Poetics”, p.27, University of Michigan Press

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• A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

  Edward Abbey

  Worth Living

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.

  Abraham Verghese

  Children, Years, Meaning Of Life

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• People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Pain, People, Monsters

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.191, Penguin

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• Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

  Karen White

  Kindness, Opportunity, Giving

  Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.95, Penguin

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• Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Grief, Grieving, Lasts

  Elizabeth McCracken (2008). “An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.

  Rachel Caine

  Grief, Reality, Layers

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Working Stiff: A Revivalist Novel”, p.194, Penguin

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• Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. "I've only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing. I'm utterly lost. And you are needed here." Zsadist tried to reach out, but couldn't lift his arms as Phury stood up. "God, Z, I keep thinking this tragedy of ours is going to be over. But it just keeps going, doesn't it?" Zsadist blacked out to the sound of his twin's boots heading from the room.

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Zsadist, Boots

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• The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Humor, Age And Youth

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• The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

  James Patterson

  Grief, Loss, Ideas

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• Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

  Thomas Moore

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Loss

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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