1,113 Quotes About Tragedy



  • Author Olivia Wilde
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    The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

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  • Author Oscar Wilde
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    For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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  • Author Oscar Wilde
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    After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

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  • Author Simone Weil
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    All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

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  • Author Virginia Woolf
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    Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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