Barack Obama Quotes, Parent Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

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

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The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students away from core values of civil liberties and constitutional safeguards. Students who have been led to believe by university administrators and faculty that censorship and denial of due process are acceptable norms will be more susceptible to accepting those norms in their post-university lives. That would be a tragedy for America.

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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

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

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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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