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• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Believe, Ignorance, Butterfly

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Mean, Ends

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 2. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 573:3

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• The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Ladders, Limits, Infinite

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.81, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

  Antonin Artaud

  Enough, Stage, My Own

  "Memories For Tomorrow". Book by Jean-Louis Barrault, 1974.

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• Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

  Clarence Darrow

  Wisdom, Children, Teaching

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• Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

  Frida Kahlo

  Laughter, Light, Laughing

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• Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

  William Shakespeare

  Cassius, Ears, Praise

  Julius Caesar act 3, sc. 2, l. 74 (1599)

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• Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

  Mark Antony

  Ambition, Loss, Dogs Of War

  "Fictional character: Mark Anthony". "Mark Anthony’s Speech at Funeral in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare", www.cbsenext.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Birthday, Aging, Tragic

  Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) ch. 1

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• Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

  Jean Anouilh

  Hype, Deceit, Reason

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  Vernon Jordan

  September 11, Terrible, September

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• The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

  F.B. Meyer

  Prayer, Life Is, Prayer Life

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• There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

  Erma Bombeck

  Happiness, Hurt, Laughter

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.139, Open Road Media

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• Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

  Jacques Barzun

  Yield, Mind, Great Minds

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• The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Time, Inspiration

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Suffering, Fruit

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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• Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Race, Forgotten, Divine

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• A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

  Aristotle

  Fear, Catharsis, Serious

  Poetics ch. 6, 1449b

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• What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

  Dennis Hastert

  America, Together

  Dennis Hastert during House Session, www.c-span.org. March 3, 2005.

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• Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Evolution, Natural, Disaster

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• You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Tree, Bending

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 1), 1980.

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• None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

  Edith Hamilton

  Pain, Writing, Exaltation

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

  Steven Weinberg

  Life, Education, Money

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

  Tony Blair

  Our World, History, Evil

  Statement, 11 Sept. 2001

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• Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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