Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Pain Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

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

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My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

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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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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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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

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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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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

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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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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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

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For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

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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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Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

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