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#1

“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

tags: apathy, suicide, tragedy

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#2

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: romance, teen-suicide, tragedy

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#3

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: desire, life, lost, paradox, tragedy

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#4

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole

tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy

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#5

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: comedy, humor, hurt, laughter, pain, tragedy

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#6

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
― Mel Brooks

tags: comedy, humor, tragedy

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#7

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
― Joseph Stalin

tags: death, humanity, life, media, statistics, tragedy

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#8

“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

tags: comedy, life, tragedy

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#9

“The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

tags: human-nature, loneliness, tragedy

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#10

“Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
― Jean Racine

tags: comedy, emotions, feeling, life, thinking, tragedy

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#11

“The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.”
― Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

tags: drama, grief, loss, mourning, tragedy, war, world-war-ii

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#12

“If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

tags: ambition, knowledge, tragedy

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#13

“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

tags: happiness, human-nature, tragedy

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#14

“Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: tragedy

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#15

“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”
― Jean Racine

tags: blood, death, sadness, tragedy

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#17

“If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

tags: perspective, tragedy

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#18

“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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