1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

  • Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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    The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

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  • Author Tullian Tchividjian
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    Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.

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  • Author Rudy Vallee
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    That's one of the tragedies of this life-that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

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  • Author Chandra Wilson
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    Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

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  • Author Denzel Washington
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    The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.

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