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• The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely orange tinged in the yellow of the light on the scattered low clouds, I, who hadn't slept, could finally, slowly raise my body, exhausted from nothing from the bed from which I had thought the universe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Morning, Stars

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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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heaven, Scene, Hundred

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

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• People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Thinking, Alzheimer's

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• We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

  Helen Clark

  Condolences, America, People

  "Australia pledges help, support" by Grant Holloway, cnn.com. September 11, 2001.

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• I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.

  Kanye West

  Champion, Triumph, Turns

  Song: Through the Wire

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• Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.

  Michael Meade

  Quality, World, Golden

  "Golden Repair of the Cracks in the World" by Michael Meade, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2014.

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• September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.

  Tony Blair

  New York, America, Challenges

  "Attacks Remembered: In quotes". news.bbc.co.uk. September 11, 2002.

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• That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.

  Rod Steiger

  Kings, Believe, Men

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• It's difficult to follow your dream. It's a tragedy not to.

  Ralph Marston

  Dream, Difficult, Follow Your Dreams

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• Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.

  Marsden Wagner

  Baby, Women, Mean

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• Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Would Be, Wrecks

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.197, Penguin

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• The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.

  Milton Friedman

  Hurt, Real, Law

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• The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

  Albert Einstein

  Illusion, Existence, Humans

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• Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

  John Masefield

  People, Suffering, Corny

  John Masefield (1923). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield”

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• I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.

  Katharine Susannah Prichard

  Art, Mad, Stories

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• Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

  Kylie Tennant

  Art, People, Happens

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• The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.

  Thomas Sowell

  Fate, People, Dozen

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• I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

  Charlize Theron

  Believe, Moving, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Mar 17, 2015

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• To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Space, Giving, Tests

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• Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture .

  John Stott

  Christian, Counter Culture, Long

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.44, SPCK

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• I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.

  Billy Graham

  Compassion, Suffering, Sovereign

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

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• Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Decision, Human Experience, Humans

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.19, Penguin

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• Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Laughing, Comedy

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.21, Knopf

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• Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

  Milton Friedman

  Drug, Use, Beverages

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• A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

  Amy Poehler

  Writing, Brain, Doe

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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