Tragedy Quotes - Page 36

• It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

  Sam Shepard

  Fall, America, Common

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

  Charles A. Beard

  Men, Challenges, Humanity

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• It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

  Anne Heche

  Loving Yourself, Important, Stuff

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

  Chandra Wilson

  Happiness, Silver, Middle

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Thinking, Tools, Who We Are

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.

  Hayley Atwell

  Jobs, Greek, Lucky

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Character, Opposites, Suffering And Death

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• We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Important, World, Way

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• I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Thinking, Faces, Kind

  "Julie Brown: Being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. October 20, 2010.

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• It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Fighting, Winning, Support

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• I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

  Chris Cleave

  Athlete, Thinking, Two

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• Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.

  Gregg Allman

  Real, Blessed, Thinking

  "Musician Gregg Allman". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 23, 2012.

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• I think art can reflect tragedy.

  John Corigliano

  Art, Thinking

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

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• I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.

  Julian Castro

  War, Men, Digital Revolution

  Julian Castro's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

  Stafford Cripps

  Axes, Evil, Design

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• For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Long, Unemployment, Enough

  "US unemployment: some lessons in sharing from the Great Depression" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

  Jack Abramoff

  Thinking, Illegal, Wells

  "Jack Abramoff Calls D.C. Politics Dirty As Ever". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 18, 2011.

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• I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes art can be a really good escape from the intolerable, and a good place to go when things are bad, but that doesn't mean you have to write directly about the bad thing; sometimes you need to let time pass, and allow the thing that hurts to get covered with layers, and then you take it out, like a pearl, and you make art out of it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Hurt, Mean

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• Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.

  Tupac Shakur

  Children, Home, Reality

  Tupac Shakur (1999). “The Rose That Grew From Concrete”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Life, Philosophy, Self

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• If you could envision... the meaning of a tragedy... you might be surprised to hear, its you and me.

  Christina Perri

  Inspirational, Might, Ifs

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• I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.

  Graham Nash

  War, People, Trying

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• In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Blessing, Appreciate, Development

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• I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

  Dan Quayle

  Politics

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• Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

  Patti Page

  Years, Able, Handle

  "Patti Page Looks Back On 40 Years" by Stephen Holden, www.nytimes.com. July 15, 1988.

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