tragedy

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1057959	There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.	tragedy life paradox lost	George Bernard Shaw
9aa90a9	For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.	tragedy teen-suicide	William Shakespeare
70a0163	"A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take	tragedy creativity	Stephen King
779db64	I can't go on, I'll go on.	tragedy fiction humor tragic-comedy nihilism existentialism drama	Samuel Beckett
3d9aa67	We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.	tragedy hope life hesitation	Stephen Jay Gould
612e9d8	"The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self." "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good." --	tragedy war hitler	John Fowles
38ed050	Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.	tragedy life	Jeannette Walls
dd65e89	I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.	tragedy men women	W. Somerset Maugham
ee2d589	The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.	tragedy sadness	Alan Lightman
5268115	If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.	tragedy	Irvin D. Yalom
39b0227	It's not over if you're still here," Chronicler said. "It's not a tragedy if you're still alive.	tragedy hope inspirational	Patrick Rothfuss
5663350	He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.	tragedy triviality	Friedrich Nietzsche
84a4a00	The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.	tragedy loneliness	Alan Lightman
c078448	Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .	words tragedy	Oscar Wilde
f8fe292	Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour	tragedy	Euripides
2173247	The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.	tragedy life	Arthur Schopenhauer
dd4d0c3	No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes--forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.	tragedy life insulation originality islands isolation	Neil Gaiman
1b141ac	The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.	tragedy play william-shakespeare macbeth	William Shakespeare
8df6753	And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.	tragedy platonic-love platonic	Leo Tolstoy
ae52b0b	The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.	tragedy human-nature	Alan Lightman
4680061	Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?	tragedy	Honoré de Balzac
bb57597	Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.	tragedy perseverance humanity change life cataclysm revelation-of-self humility transformation	Marianne Williamson
5ab7186	What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?	tragedy faustus	Christopher Marlowe
8889c66	That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them -- that is the tragedy of life.	tragedy	Henry Miller
fe345eb	Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.	tragedy death life love	Joseph Campbell
70d5502	What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.	tragedy satisfaction sublime	Arthur Schopenhauer
a5495ea	Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.	tragedy dignity	William Shakespeare
ace8329	It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course--for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.	tragedy receding illusions tragic	C.G. Jung
553f525	Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.	evolution tragedy dissolution	Chuck Palahniuk
4145ab9	The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he's circling at eye level now and seems to have lost rudder control, smacking into the wall on each round. He circles lower and lower, spinning around the candle in tighter revolutions, like a soap sud over an open drain. A few times he seems to touch the flame, but dances off unhurt. Then he ignites like a ball of hair, curling into an oily puff of fumes with a hiss. The candle flame flickers and dims for a moment, then burns as bright as before. Moth Smoke Lingers.	tragedy love star-crossed insects moth smoke	Mohsin Hamid
7df3fb8	This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.	violence tragedy pain war grief faith fear hope love anguish casualties-of-war child-victims-of-war children-killed-in-war gun-laws peacemaking russia-and-ukraine-conflict spiritual-love gun-violence world-suicide-prevention-day syrian-civil-war unconditional-love agape-love conflict-resolution nonviolent-conflict-resolution police-reform police-shootings peace-movement peace	Aberjhani
28063eb	She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.	tragedy poetic-prose	William Shakespeare
2962835	Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?	tragedy loss dream identity dreams false-hope facade fake play sad	Arthur Miller
21d6ec8	Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.	tragedy youth old-age	Julian Barnes
1130fbf	I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and the little things matter,live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam.you might listen, but you won't internalize.Tragedy hammers it hm.Tragedy etches into your soul.You might not be happier.But you will be better.	tragedy life truth	Harlan Coben
3d953ea	But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.	tragedy	Margaret Atwood
0558f27	It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me	tragedy loneliness	Jean Anouilh
7471bd7	Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust	tragedy favourite-quote	John Webster
b5004c1	You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.	tragedy pleasure	Lawrence Durrell
31a28b0	When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.	tragedy fear gospel providence	R.C. Sproul
4f276e4	Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.	tragedy real_life	David Mamet
5f56c3d	In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.	tragedy irony humor life	Douglas Adams
9f9cb1e	The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.	tragedy good	Tom Stoppard
b8c76f6	For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.	tragedy homo-sapiens darwin	John Fowles
e83aa57	The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy--that is every man's tragedy.	tragedy loneliness existence roth	Philip Roth
d807656	Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan	tragedy sophocles	Anne Carson
a25372f	was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33... Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.	tragedy history science srinivasa-ramanujan strange math mathematics	Michio Kaku
688be7c	A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world	violence tragedy people places	Ron Rash
392f544	A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.	tragedy judgmentt forgiveness failure	Alain de Botton
a9fd798	Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.	tragedy parents insanity	Anne Lamott
fe1b286	Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that discovered his three laws--discoveries of such importance that the 8th of May, 1618, may be called the birth-day of modern science; that gave to the world the Method of Fluxions, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and the Decomposition of Light; that , , , and , almost completed the science of mathematics; that all the discoveries in optics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and chemistry, the experiments, discoveries, and inventions of , , and , of , and and of all the pioneers of progress--that all this was accomplished by uninspired men, while the writer of the Pentateuch was directed and inspired by an infinite God? Is it possible that the codes of China, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome were made by man, and that the laws recorded in the Pentateuch were alone given by God? Is it possible that and , , and , and , and all the poets of the world, and all their wondrous tragedies and songs are but the work of men, while no intelligence except the infinite God could be the author of the Pentateuch? Is it possible that of all the books that crowd the libraries of the world, the books of science, fiction, history and song, that all save only one, have been produced by man? Is it possible that of all these, the bible only is the work of God?	discoveries progress tragedy libraries poets shakespeare india light writer fiction books inspiration bible science songs intelligence alessandro-volta benjamin-franklin beranger bonaventura-cavalieri bonaventura-francesco-cavalieri burns cavalieri chemistry china copernicus descartes euclid experiments franklin fulton galileo galileo-galilei galvani gottfried-leibniz gottfried-von-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-von-leibniz greece hydrostatics inventions isaac-newton james-watt johann-von-goethe johannes-kepler kepler laws-of-motion leibniz luigi-aloisio-galvani luigi-galvani math mathematics morse newton nicolaus-copernicus optics pentateuch pierre-jean-de-béranger pioneers pneumatics rene-descartes richard-trevithick robert-burns robert-fulton rome samuel-finley-breese-morse samuel-morse schiller the-bible theory-of-gravity theory-of-universal-gravitation trevethick volta watt Æschylus johann-wolfgang-von-goethe goethe egypt william-shakespeare	Robert G. Ingersoll
c0f243b	Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life.	tragedy morality the-death-of-tragedy greek-mythology socrates	John Gray
c4fb77c	He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.	tragedy pain woman depression emotion sorrow sadness ship devastation numb empty way storm peace cold disappointment	Robin Hobb
60dbbd1	THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND YOU When I hold a rose, I see the soft, velvety petals and smile, because tucked between those precious petals is a special gift - the one of a fragrance, pure and sweet. When you hold a rose, you see the thorns along the stem, and you frown because those thorns can bring you pain and cause you to bleed. I see the gift. You see the tragedy. More and more I fear that one of these days someone will hand me a rose and all I will see are thorns. Talk about tragedy.	tragedy pain poetry fear fragrance rose difference	Lisa Schroeder
6451469	As a lord was held for the strength of his body and stoutness of heart. Much lore he learned, and loved wisdom but fortune followed him in few desires; oft wrong and awry what he wrought turned; what he loved he lost, what he longed for he won not; and full friendship he found not easily, nor was lightly loved for his looks were sad. He was gloom-hearted, and glad seldom for the sundering sorrow that filled his youth... (On Turin Turambar - The Children of Hurin)	tolkien tragedy	J.R.R. Tolkien
0b1a936	Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.	tragedy grief sorry heartache	Cormac McCarthy
bbbfe8c	Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.	tragedy time youth beauty death shabby wrinkled grow mean old young die	Raymond Chandler
ebf3a5f	We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even something as petty as being scorned or disdained by a stranger on a street corner). We try not to carry these things over to tomorrow. It is not strange, therefore, that the whole human race is trying to put Hiroshima, the extreme point of human tragedy, completely out of mind.	tragedy responsibility	Kenzaburō Ōe
d43d2f4	It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.	tragedy	Sara Zarr
ae8353c	"Die Welt ist nirgends ausser diesen Mauern; Nur Fegefeuer, Qual, die Holle selbst. Von hier verbannt, ist aus der Welt verbannt, Und solcher Bann ist Tod: Drum gibst du ihm Den falschen Namen. - Nennst du Tod Verbannung, Enthauptest du mit goldnem Beile mich Und lachelst zu dem Streich, der mich ermordet. There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence banished is banished from the world, And world's exile is death. Then "banished" Is death mistermed. Calling death "banished", Thou cuttest my head off with a golden axe And smilest upon the stroke that murders me. Romeo: Act III, Scene 3"	tragedy love liebe tod tragödie	William Shakespeare
62fdb99	You'll find that great artists don't love, live, fuck or even die like ordinary people. Because they always have their art. It nourishes them more than any connection to people. Whatever human tragedy befalls them, they're never too gutted, because they need only to pour the tragedy into their vat, stir in the other lurid ingredients, blast it over a fire. What emerges will be even more magnificent than if the tragedy had never occurred.	artists tragedy	Marisha Pessl
4d81073	And the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is nothing I would trade them for. There is no place I would rather have seen.	tragedy	Ariel Levy
51ea090	Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.	tragedy life news	Tom Perrotta
028149b	"Francis stared down at the Duchess of York's letter. He swallowed, then read aloud in a husky voice, "It was showed by John Sponer that King Richard, late mercifully reigning upon us, was through great treason piteously slain and murdered, to the great heaviness of this City." As Margaret listened, the embittered grey eyes had softened, misted with sudden tears. "My brother may lie in an untended grave," she said, "but he does not lack for an epitaph."	tragedy richard-iii wars-of-the-roses	Sharon Kay Penman
2762ae2	I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.	tragedy	Madeleine L'Engle
4ec5291	Listening, it occurred to Randall that the love people feel for animals is the purest form of love. Loving an animal, a horse, cat, or dog, was always a romantic tragedy. It meant loving something that would die before you. Like that movie with Ali McGraw. There was no future, just the affection of the present moment. You didn't expect a big payoff, someday.	tragedy love	Chuck Palahniuk
bd08a45	Tragedies in hindsight look like farces.	tragedy life	Julian Barnes
8a445f9	If I had spoken to him out loud, he would have understood the tragic fate of those who came back, left over, living dead. You must look at them carefully. Their appearance is deceptive. They are smugglers. They look like the others. They eat, they laugh, they love. The seek money, fame, love. Like the other. But it isn't true; they are playing, sometimes without even knowing it. Anyone who has seen what THEY have seen cannot be like the others, cannot laugh, love, pray, bargain, suffer, have fun, or forget. Like the others. You have to watch them carefully when they pass by an innocent-looking smokestack, or when they lift a piece of bread to their mouths. Something in them shudders and makes you turn your eyes away. These people have been amputated; they haven't lost their legs or eyes, but their will and their taste for life. The things they have seen will come to the surface again sooner or later. And then the world will be frightened and won't dare look these spiritual cripples in the eye.	tragedy living-dead	Elie Wiesel
9c2067b	In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life.	tragedy death life	Sara Gruen
84abdf0	I will not stop singing the Muses who set me dancing.	tragedy writer poetry joy work inspiration inspirational-quotes happiness life love euripides muses dancing sing creativity poet	Anne Carson
aaa1347	Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?	tragedy	Orson Scott Card
2ab0b40	If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.	madness sanity tragedy life	Alain de Botton
77278f3	"To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also." --	tragedy the-iceman-cometh literary-criticism	Harold Bloom
b0e7eb0	"That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault." Lulu"	tragedy	Ruth Reichl
4fd9e52	Newspapers take peoples' tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.	tragedy world newspaper sensationalism news media	Rebecca McNutt
0855b5c	At the beginning of the war...I had to look in on the War Office, and in a room I found a fellow...What do you think he was doing...what the hell do you think he was doing? He was devising the ceremonial for the disbanding of a Kitchener battalion. You can't say we were not prepared in one matter at least.... Well, the end of the show was to be: the adjutant would stand the battalion at ease; the band would play Land of Hope and Glory, and then the adjutant would say: There will be no more parades.... Don't you see how symbolical it was--the band playing Land of Hope and Glory, and then the adjutant saying: There will be no more parades?...For there won't. There won't, there damn well won't. No more Hope, no more Glory, no more parades for you and me any more. Nor for the country...nor for the world, I dare say... None... Gone... Napoo finny! No...more...parades!	tragedy passing-of-time world-war-1	Ford Madox Ford
3ca90a1	"You his brother?' 'Yes, damn it!' I burst out. "And all I want is to get my hands on whoever did this to him!' 'Funny,' said a dick dryly, 'but so do we.' I didn't like him much after that. Sarcasm is out of place when a man has just been brought face to face with personal tragedy. ("Walls That Hear You")"	tragedy	Cornell Woolrich
3158889	Both of them had a sad desperation about them. Lord, Andre thought, why do young lovers dote on misery? How nice to be an aging lover and when you walk into the room meet someone who is happy and loves in an uncomplicated way. Young people demand tragedy. He had had that with Nicole. Love for the young is a waste and a mess.	tragedy youth new-love	Leon Uris
4b72d20	Whenever I hear of someone else's tragedy, I do not dwell on the accident or diagnosis, or even the initial shock waves or aftermath of grief. Instead, I find myself reconstructing those final ordinary moments. Moments that make up our lives. Moments that were blissfully taken for granted--and that likely would have been forgotten altogether but for what followed. The snapshots.	tragedy heart-of-the-matter	Emily Giffin
dc49a4c	There is no path set for this kind of shock, and for the grief that attends such terrible news.	maisie-dobbs tragedy sorrow	Jacqueline Winspear
644075a	Tony had spent a great deal of time dwelling on whoever this poor Disney hostess must have been, not as a casualty but as a person. She never got to be an adult, he'd told himself in horror.	tragedy america-sings casualty debbie-stone disney disneyland tragic sad horror	Rebecca McNutt
c3c393d	The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it could sense it. It could sense some form of tragedy and helplessness being played out, and to tell you the truth, it all surprised me. I was so used to things just going on, oblivious and ignorant to all feeling.	tragedy ignorant neighorhood oblivious sense helplessness	Markus Zusak
54f684b	Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed.	tragedy suffering unapproachable jeffrey-eugenides the-virgin-suicides unknowable	Jeffrey Eugenides
af5a0e3	The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.	tragedy desensitized political-upheaval	Jhumpa Lahiri
755a016	Of all her putative fathers -- Max Schlepzig and masked extras on one side of the moving film, Franz Pokler and certainly other pairs of hands busy through trouser cloth, that Night, on the other -- Bianca is closest, this last possible moment below decks here behind the ravening jackal, closest to you who came in blinding color, slouched alone in your seat, never threatened along any rookwise row or diagonal all night, you whose interdiction from her mother's water-white love is absolute, you, alone, saying , omitting, chuckling , unable, thinking ... She favors you, most of all. You'll never get to see her. So somebody has to tell you.	tragedy loss-of-innocence	Thomas Pynchon
644e0f9	"No," he said after a pause, "the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own. They do not even withhold their own existence from his sports. Jove may favor Lucianos of Samosata. As long as your mockery is in true godly taste you may mock at the gods and still remain a sound devotee. But in pitying, or condoling with your god, you deny and annihilate him, and such is the most horrible of atheisms."	tragedy god	Karen Blixen
e419392	They say it takes a long time to comprehend a tragedy. You're numb. You can't adequately accept the grim reality. Again, that's not true. Not for me anyway.	tragedy	Harlan Coben
96d43e4	...trust in God could impose an additional burden on good people slammed to their knees by some senseless tragedy. An atheist might be no less staggered by such an event, but nonbelievers often experienced a kind of calm acceptance: shit happens, and this particular shit happened to them. It could be more difficult for a person of faith to get to his feet precisely because he had to reconcile God's love and care with the stupid, brutal fact that something irreversibly terrible had happened.	tragedy grief	Mary Doria Russell
e3cf04b	Is it best to know about a child's death, even one so horrible, or to know that the child lives but that you will never, never see him again?	tragedy	William Styron
430b2c2	Rafe said again.	tragedy helicopter rafe maya fall	Kelley Armstrong
73fe1e6	<> disse , guardandoci. <>	tragedy philosophy donna-tartt the-secret-history philosophy-quotes philosophy-of-life greek human-nature	Donna Tartt
6153744	"Now enter, single file, the hosts who died early on, in Acts 3 and 4, or between scenes. The miraculous return of all those lost without a trace. The thought that they've been waiting patiently offstage without taking off their makeup	tragedy	Wisława Szymborska
f189532	She was so full of holes now, she was like a Swiss cheese.	tragedy	Danielle Steel
d7b3918	"From "The Jasmine Farm" by Elizabeth von Arnim, c 1934: "...except for a little trickle of water somewhere near, and the piping, on an oleander bush, of a solitary bird, so great a stillness surrounded her that in the whole world there might have been no one but herself. Relaxed she sat, her hands palm upwards on her lap, her mouth open because she was too tired to keep it shut. If she had known it, she was being exquisitely welcomed. The scented air, floating past her, lingered to pat her face. From a row of Madonna lilies, under the windows of the house, came fragrance, crossing the grass to greet her. Slanting shadows cooled her. The bird piped away, as if to her alone, songs of wisdom and good cheer. She was surrounded, companioned, pressed upon by beauty; and, for all she saw of it, it might have been Tottenham Court Road in a fog. 'Lift up your heart,' something whispered--'foolish woman, lift up your heart.' But of what use is it to exhort the absorbed, those who are steeped in their own particular tragedies, to do things like that? She heard the whisper, she recognised that familiar words were drifting through her mind, and all she did about it was listlessly to wonder that anybody had enough energy to lift up anything."	tragedy exhaustion	Elizabeth von Arnim

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

George Bernard Shaw

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For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

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William Shakespeare

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"A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take

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Stephen King

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I can't go on, I'll go on.

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Samuel Beckett

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We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

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Stephen Jay Gould

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"The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self." "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good." --

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John Fowles

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Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

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Jeannette Walls

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I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.

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W. Somerset Maugham

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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

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Alan Lightman

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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

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Irvin D. Yalom

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It's not over if you're still here," Chronicler said. "It's not a tragedy if you're still alive.

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Patrick Rothfuss

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He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

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Alan Lightman

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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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Oscar Wilde

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Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour

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Euripides

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The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

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No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes--forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.

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Neil Gaiman

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The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

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William Shakespeare

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And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

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Leo Tolstoy

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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

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Alan Lightman

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Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

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Honoré de Balzac

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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.

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Marianne Williamson

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What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

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Christopher Marlowe

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That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them -- that is the tragedy of life.

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Henry Miller

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Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

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Joseph Campbell

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What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

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Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

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William Shakespeare

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It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course--for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.

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C.G. Jung

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

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Chuck Palahniuk

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The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he's circling at eye level now and seems to have lost rudder control, smacking into the wall on each round. He circles lower and lower, spinning around the candle in tighter revolutions, like a soap sud over an open drain. A few times he seems to touch the flame, but dances off unhurt. Then he ignites like a ball of hair, curling into an oily puff of fumes with a hiss. The candle flame flickers and dims for a moment, then burns as bright as before. Moth Smoke Lingers.

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Mohsin Hamid

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This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

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Aberjhani

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She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.

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William Shakespeare

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Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

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Arthur Miller

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Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.

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Julian Barnes

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I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and the little things matter,live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam.you might listen, but you won't internalize.Tragedy hammers it hm.Tragedy etches into your soul.You might not be happier.But you will be better.

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Harlan Coben

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But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.

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Margaret Atwood

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It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

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Jean Anouilh

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Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust

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John Webster

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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

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Lawrence Durrell

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When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.

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R.C. Sproul

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Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.

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David Mamet

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In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

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Douglas Adams

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

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Tom Stoppard

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For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

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John Fowles

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The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy--that is every man's tragedy.

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Philip Roth

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Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan

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Anne Carson

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was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33... Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.

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Michio Kaku

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A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

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Ron Rash

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A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

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Alain de Botton

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Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

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Anne Lamott

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Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that discovered his three laws--discoveries of such importance that the 8th of May, 1618, may be called the birth-day of modern science; that gave to the world the Method of Fluxions, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and the Decomposition of Light; that , , , and , almost completed the science of mathematics; that all the discoveries in optics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and chemistry, the experiments, discoveries, and inventions of , , and , of , and and of all the pioneers of progress--that all this was accomplished by uninspired men, while the writer of the Pentateuch was directed and inspired by an infinite God? Is it possible that the codes of China, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome were made by man, and that the laws recorded in the Pentateuch were alone given by God? Is it possible that and , , and , and , and all the poets of the world, and all their wondrous tragedies and songs are but the work of men, while no intelligence except the infinite God could be the author of the Pentateuch? Is it possible that of all the books that crowd the libraries of the world, the books of science, fiction, history and song, that all save only one, have been produced by man? Is it possible that of all these, the bible only is the work of God?

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Robert G. Ingersoll

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Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life.

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John   Gray

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He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.

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Robin Hobb

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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND YOU When I hold a rose, I see the soft, velvety petals and smile, because tucked between those precious petals is a special gift - the one of a fragrance, pure and sweet. When you hold a rose, you see the thorns along the stem, and you frown because those thorns can bring you pain and cause you to bleed. I see the gift. You see the tragedy. More and more I fear that one of these days someone will hand me a rose and all I will see are thorns. Talk about tragedy.

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Lisa Schroeder

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As a lord was held for the strength of his body and stoutness of heart. Much lore he learned, and loved wisdom but fortune followed him in few desires; oft wrong and awry what he wrought turned; what he loved he lost, what he longed for he won not; and full friendship he found not easily, nor was lightly loved for his looks were sad. He was gloom-hearted, and glad seldom for the sundering sorrow that filled his youth... (On Turin Turambar - The Children of Hurin)

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.

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Cormac McCarthy

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Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.

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Raymond Chandler

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We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even something as petty as being scorned or disdained by a stranger on a street corner). We try not to carry these things over to tomorrow. It is not strange, therefore, that the whole human race is trying to put Hiroshima, the extreme point of human tragedy, completely out of mind.

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Kenzaburō Ōe

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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

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Sara Zarr

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"Die Welt ist nirgends ausser diesen Mauern; Nur Fegefeuer, Qual, die Holle selbst. Von hier verbannt, ist aus der Welt verbannt, Und solcher Bann ist Tod: Drum gibst du ihm Den falschen Namen. - Nennst du Tod Verbannung, Enthauptest du mit goldnem Beile mich Und lachelst zu dem Streich, der mich ermordet. There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence banished is banished from the world, And world's exile is death. Then "banished" Is death mistermed. Calling death "banished", Thou cuttest my head off with a golden axe And smilest upon the stroke that murders me. Romeo: Act III, Scene 3"

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William Shakespeare

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You'll find that great artists don't love, live, fuck or even die like ordinary people. Because they always have their art. It nourishes them more than any connection to people. Whatever human tragedy befalls them, they're never too gutted, because they need only to pour the tragedy into their vat, stir in the other lurid ingredients, blast it over a fire. What emerges will be even more magnificent than if the tragedy had never occurred.

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Marisha Pessl

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And the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is nothing I would trade them for. There is no place I would rather have seen.

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Ariel Levy

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Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

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Tom Perrotta

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"Francis stared down at the Duchess of York's letter. He swallowed, then read aloud in a husky voice, "It was showed by John Sponer that King Richard, late mercifully reigning upon us, was through great treason piteously slain and murdered, to the great heaviness of this City." As Margaret listened, the embittered grey eyes had softened, misted with sudden tears. "My brother may lie in an untended grave," she said, "but he does not lack for an epitaph."

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Sharon Kay Penman

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I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

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Madeleine L'Engle

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Listening, it occurred to Randall that the love people feel for animals is the purest form of love. Loving an animal, a horse, cat, or dog, was always a romantic tragedy. It meant loving something that would die before you. Like that movie with Ali McGraw. There was no future, just the affection of the present moment. You didn't expect a big payoff, someday.

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Chuck Palahniuk

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Tragedies in hindsight look like farces.

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Julian Barnes

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If I had spoken to him out loud, he would have understood the tragic fate of those who came back, left over, living dead. You must look at them carefully. Their appearance is deceptive. They are smugglers. They look like the others. They eat, they laugh, they love. The seek money, fame, love. Like the other. But it isn't true; they are playing, sometimes without even knowing it. Anyone who has seen what THEY have seen cannot be like the others, cannot laugh, love, pray, bargain, suffer, have fun, or forget. Like the others. You have to watch them carefully when they pass by an innocent-looking smokestack, or when they lift a piece of bread to their mouths. Something in them shudders and makes you turn your eyes away. These people have been amputated; they haven't lost their legs or eyes, but their will and their taste for life. The things they have seen will come to the surface again sooner or later. And then the world will be frightened and won't dare look these spiritual cripples in the eye.

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Elie Wiesel

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In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life.

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Sara Gruen

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I will not stop singing the Muses who set me dancing.

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Anne Carson

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Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

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Orson Scott Card

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If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.

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Alain de Botton

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"To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also." --

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Harold Bloom

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"That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault." Lulu"

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Ruth Reichl

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Newspapers take peoples' tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.

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Rebecca McNutt

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At the beginning of the war...I had to look in on the War Office, and in a room I found a fellow...What do you think he was doing...what the hell do you think he was doing? He was devising the ceremonial for the disbanding of a Kitchener battalion. You can't say we were not prepared in one matter at least.... Well, the end of the show was to be: the adjutant would stand the battalion at ease; the band would play Land of Hope and Glory, and then the adjutant would say: There will be no more parades.... Don't you see how symbolical it was--the band playing Land of Hope and Glory, and then the adjutant saying: There will be no more parades?...For there won't. There won't, there damn well won't. No more Hope, no more Glory, no more parades for you and me any more. Nor for the country...nor for the world, I dare say... None... Gone... Napoo finny! No...more...parades!

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Ford Madox Ford

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"You his brother?' 'Yes, damn it!' I burst out. "And all I want is to get my hands on whoever did this to him!' 'Funny,' said a dick dryly, 'but so do we.' I didn't like him much after that. Sarcasm is out of place when a man has just been brought face to face with personal tragedy. ("Walls That Hear You")"

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Cornell Woolrich

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Both of them had a sad desperation about them. Lord, Andre thought, why do young lovers dote on misery? How nice to be an aging lover and when you walk into the room meet someone who is happy and loves in an uncomplicated way. Young people demand tragedy. He had had that with Nicole. Love for the young is a waste and a mess.

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Leon Uris

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Whenever I hear of someone else's tragedy, I do not dwell on the accident or diagnosis, or even the initial shock waves or aftermath of grief. Instead, I find myself reconstructing those final ordinary moments. Moments that make up our lives. Moments that were blissfully taken for granted--and that likely would have been forgotten altogether but for what followed. The snapshots.

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Emily Giffin

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There is no path set for this kind of shock, and for the grief that attends such terrible news.

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Jacqueline Winspear

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Tony had spent a great deal of time dwelling on whoever this poor Disney hostess must have been, not as a casualty but as a person. She never got to be an adult, he'd told himself in horror.

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Rebecca McNutt

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The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it could sense it. It could sense some form of tragedy and helplessness being played out, and to tell you the truth, it all surprised me. I was so used to things just going on, oblivious and ignorant to all feeling.

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Markus Zusak

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Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed.

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Jeffrey Eugenides

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The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.

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Jhumpa Lahiri

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Of all her putative fathers -- Max Schlepzig and masked extras on one side of the moving film, Franz Pokler and certainly other pairs of hands busy through trouser cloth, that Night, on the other -- Bianca is closest, this last possible moment below decks here behind the ravening jackal, closest to you who came in blinding color, slouched alone in your seat, never threatened along any rookwise row or diagonal all night, you whose interdiction from her mother's water-white love is absolute, you, alone, saying , omitting, chuckling , unable, thinking ... She favors you, most of all. You'll never get to see her. So somebody has to tell you.

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Thomas Pynchon

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"No," he said after a pause, "the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own. They do not even withhold their own existence from his sports. Jove may favor Lucianos of Samosata. As long as your mockery is in true godly taste you may mock at the gods and still remain a sound devotee. But in pitying, or condoling with your god, you deny and annihilate him, and such is the most horrible of atheisms."

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Karen Blixen

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They say it takes a long time to comprehend a tragedy. You're numb. You can't adequately accept the grim reality. Again, that's not true. Not for me anyway.

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Harlan Coben

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...trust in God could impose an additional burden on good people slammed to their knees by some senseless tragedy. An atheist might be no less staggered by such an event, but nonbelievers often experienced a kind of calm acceptance: shit happens, and this particular shit happened to them. It could be more difficult for a person of faith to get to his feet precisely because he had to reconcile God's love and care with the stupid, brutal fact that something irreversibly terrible had happened.

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Mary Doria Russell

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Is it best to know about a child's death, even one so horrible, or to know that the child lives but that you will never, never see him again?

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William Styron

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Rafe said again.

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Kelley Armstrong

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Donna Tartt

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"Now enter, single file, the hosts who died early on, in Acts 3 and 4, or between scenes. The miraculous return of all those lost without a trace. The thought that they've been waiting patiently offstage without taking off their makeup

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Wisława Szymborska

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She was so full of holes now, she was like a Swiss cheese.

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Danielle Steel

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"From "The Jasmine Farm" by Elizabeth von Arnim, c 1934: "...except for a little trickle of water somewhere near, and the piping, on an oleander bush, of a solitary bird, so great a stillness surrounded her that in the whole world there might have been no one but herself. Relaxed she sat, her hands palm upwards on her lap, her mouth open because she was too tired to keep it shut. If she had known it, she was being exquisitely welcomed. The scented air, floating past her, lingered to pat her face. From a row of Madonna lilies, under the windows of the house, came fragrance, crossing the grass to greet her. Slanting shadows cooled her. The bird piped away, as if to her alone, songs of wisdom and good cheer. She was surrounded, companioned, pressed upon by beauty; and, for all she saw of it, it might have been Tottenham Court Road in a fog. 'Lift up your heart,' something whispered--'foolish woman, lift up your heart.' But of what use is it to exhort the absorbed, those who are steeped in their own particular tragedies, to do things like that? She heard the whisper, she recognised that familiar words were drifting through her mind, and all she did about it was listlessly to wonder that anybody had enough energy to lift up anything."

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Elizabeth von Arnim