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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The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

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

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

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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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We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

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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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The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

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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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However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.

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

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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

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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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Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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