Tragedy Quotes - Page 37

• A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.

  Paula Patton

  Photography, Two, People

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

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• Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Doe

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• Tragedy is the violation of love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Sexuality, Violation

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• Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

  Peter Shaffer

  Two, Different, Kind

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• I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and tragedies. I enjoy writing the contemporary and historical books equally, though perhaps 'enjoy' is the wrong word.

  Susan Wiggs

  Falling In Love, Book, Writing

  Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.

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• Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Eye, Wake Up, May

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• It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.

  Willa Cather

  Real, Book, Writing

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• I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, New York, Mean

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• The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Saint, Today

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• As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Would Be, Horrible, Locked Up

  "Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. May 24, 2013.

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• For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

  Rebel Wilson

  Dark, Littles, Too Much

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• Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

  Dick Cavett

  Running, Drama, One Day

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• The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope.

  Benjamin Watson

  Giving, Eric, Trayvon Martin

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.16, NavPress

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• I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

  Marian Seldes

  Thinking, Play, Trying

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• Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

  Orrin Woodward

  Purpose, Left

  Twitter post from Mar 07, 2016

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• I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.

  Pamela Moore

  Heart, School, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Pamela Moore from Dec 14, 2012

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• But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.

  Bob Rae

  Suicide, Keys, Political Will

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• You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes.

  Mark Gatiss

  Adventure, Wells

  "Mark Gatiss on Sherlock series 4: 'You can expect tragedy as well as adventure'" by Paul Jones, www.radiotimes.com. November 20, 2014.

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• The tragedy is that many of us are living desperate Christian life. Sunday comes and we get some strength, and then we lose some on Monday; a good deal is gone by Tuesday and we wonder whether we have anything left. On Wednesday it has all gone and then we exist. Or perhaps refreshment comes in some other way, some meeting we attend, some friends we meet. Now that is the old order of things, that is not the new. He puts a well within us. We are not always drawing from somewhere outside. The well, the spring, goes on springing up from within into everlasting life.

  Martyn

  Christian, Monday, Spring

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• The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.

  James Joll

  Taken, Decision, Political

  James Joll (1960). “Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays”

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• Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Fighting, Play, Might

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• History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

  Kedar Joshi

  Humility, Compassion, Giving

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• The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.

  Kedar Joshi

  Life, Fundamentals, Life Is

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• Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Love, Germany, Opera

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• The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

  Kedar Joshi

  Happiness, Law, Fundamentals

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