Tragedies

(461 votes)   The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(213 votes)   Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(181 votes)   It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

Jean Anouilh
1910-1987, French Playwright

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(141 votes)   Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Antonin Artaud
1896-1948, French Theater Producer, Actor, Theorist

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(114 votes)   The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(112 votes)   It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

Dorothy Parker
1893-1967, American Humorous Writer

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(104 votes)   What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher

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(101 votes)   It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years -- except they had little to do with being a child.

Liza Minnelli
1946-, American Actress, Singer

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(101 votes)   Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author

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(91 votes)   I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

Billy Joel
1949-, American Musician, Piano Man, Singer, Songwriter

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(91 votes)   We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(90 votes)   What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

William Dean Howells
1837-1920, American Novelist, Critic

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(83 votes)   In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(82 votes)   When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(81 votes)   It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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