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• Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

  Aberjhani

  Creative, Helping, Comedy

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

  Francine Pascal

  Knowing Love, Dying, Would Be

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him - that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.

  John Green

  Loss, Finals, Goes On

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Order, Important, Woe

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• What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Thinking, Tragic

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Divine Invasion”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.

  Bill Watterson

  Play, Numbers, Special

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the best of the time we have. And go down shooting, naturally.

  Mira Grant

  Miracle, Forever, Shooting

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• She’s really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Mother, Cake

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• That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.

  J.R. Ward

  Scent, Lines

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.30, Penguin

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• Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

  Orson Scott Card

  Life, Dies

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.479, Macmillan

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• I think whenever you go through something of that nature, you get to see who's really on your side and who's really there for you. That happened in my case. And it really let me understand that no matter how small of a decision you make, it's going to have a subsequent action or reaction, and something that started out very innocent turned into the tragedy that it was.

  Donte Stallworth

  Thinking, Decision, Action

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• She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.

  Holly Black

  Crush, Heart, Epic

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• More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Book, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Body, Comedy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.548, Wordsworth Editions

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• Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Stitches, Bleeding

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Leaving, Important Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

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• In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

  Charlie Chaplin

  Attitude, Laughing, Insane

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• Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hungry, Hours

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.140, Virginia Woolf

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• Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Minors

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• Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you're afraid some day you might lose it.

  Nora Roberts

  Party, Next Steps, Might

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.221, Penguin

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• It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

  George Orwell

  Half, Way, Late

  George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Language, Force, Standards

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.192, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Believe, Church

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• I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.

  Ilona Andrews

  Love Is, Men, Laughing

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• But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

  Garth Nix

  Adventure, Ifs, Survived

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #3: Drowned Wednesday”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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