Oprah Winfrey Quotes, Positive Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Eye Quotes , Tragedy Quotes

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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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Promise Quotes , Tragedy Quotes

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

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Tags : Alan S. Kesselheim Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Tragedy Quotes

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

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

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

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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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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Letting Go Quotes , Tragedy Quotes

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

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The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

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

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Tragedy Quotes , Matter Quotes

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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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Giving Quotes , Tragedy Quotes

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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Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

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

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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Tragedy Quotes , Hungry Quotes

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Tragedy Quotes