William Butler Yeats Quotes, Joy Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

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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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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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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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If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

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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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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

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

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This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

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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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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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

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That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

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Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

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

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