Oscar Wilde Quotes, People Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

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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The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

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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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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

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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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The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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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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Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

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

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's 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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Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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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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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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Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so

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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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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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