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Friday, 10 October 2008
Daily Quote:
"Life is a state of mind." (Warden, Jack - Life and Living)

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Browse Quotations about Tragedies

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.
It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years -- except they had little to do with being a child.
It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.


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