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#1

“A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.”
― Stephen King

tags: comedy, creativity, tragedy

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#2

“I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

tags: love, men, tragedy, women

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#3

“The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."

"I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."

"You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

tags: betrayal, hitler, tragedy, war

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#4

“Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

tags: death, hopelessness, life, tragedy

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#5

“That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

tags: loneliness, sadness, tragedy

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#6

“A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.”
― A. W. Tozer

tags: a-w-tozer, sin, tozer, tragedy, waste, waste-of-life

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#7

“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: accidents, adversity, artist, craftiness, craftsmanship, crafty, creativity, disaster, envy, hardships, illness, imperfections, loneliness, lyrics, pain, perspective, poetry, poets, sadness, suffering, tragedy, wit, words

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#8

“The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

tags: comedy, life, tragedy

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#9

“To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.”
― Amy Carmichael, God's Missionary

tags: christian, disciple, love, missionary, tragic

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#10

“Isolation, for him, had become a basic sine qua non for existence and loneliness, his sole companion like a perfectly faithful twin. He was someone for whom even happiness would cry for, mourning the death of his sentiments and murdering the existence of his soul.”
― Faraaz Kazi

tags: love, sad, tragic

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#11

“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: tragic

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#12

“You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Gates of Paradise

tags: beautiful, gates-of-paradise, melissa-de-la-cruz, oliver-hazard-perry, tragic, warrior

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#13

“There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.”
― Isaac Marion, The New Hunger

tags: humanity, morals, tragic

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#14

“People will go through their entire lives justifying every damn decision…they’ll fight for all the wrong things, until finally the right thing stares at them square in the face. That’s when the choices start to matter. Because in the end, you’re a creature of habit. So you may want to choose right, but choose wrong in the end — because you’re so damn used to it. It’s tragic, then again, life’s tragic”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

tags: choices, end, life, right, tragic

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#15

“That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.”
― Stefanos Livos, A Life In A Moment

tags: bliss, happiness, love, misery, mother, sadness, tragic

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#16

“Ang mga sagot ngayo'y baon-baon mo na sa kung saan ka man papunta. Sa paglisan mo ngayon, hindi ka na talaga babalik. Babalik ka man sa aking isip, nakaapak pa rin ako sa lupa kung saan bawat buhos ng ulan ay magsisimula akong mangarap muli. Ako na lang, mag-isa.”
― Don Vittorio C. Villasin

tags: love, sad, tagalog, tragic

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#17

“God help us, God help all of us, each one, every one, all of us'. Patrick Hamilton at the concusion of 'The Slaves of Solitude'.”
― Patrick Hamilton

tags: dark-comedy, tragic

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