Emily Dickinson Quotes, Tragedy Quotes, Literature Quotes

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

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I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

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If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

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

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I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

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It is a tragedy of the Germanic world that Jesus was Judaised, distorted, falsified; and an alien Asiatic spirit was forced upon us. That is a crime we must repair.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

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Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

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Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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