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• Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

  Holly Black

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• Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.

  V.C. Andrews

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• Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.

  Katie Kacvinsky

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• There’s obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

  Ellen Page

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• That is the mysterious thing about tragedy it often strikes at the happiest moment.

  Christopher Pike

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• You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as well. It’s really a tragedy that our society has come to that.

  Ernie Hudson

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• The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

  Alan Lightman

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• 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

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• Tragedy is a literary concept.

  David Hockney

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• If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.

  Mark Helprin

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• Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

  Ruta Sepetys

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• There’s always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way.

  Keeley Hawes

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• Dying is not the real tragedy. Forgetting is.

  Samantha Sotto

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• The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

  Dr. Myles Munroe

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• It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn’t know; and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

  Joyce Cary

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• Sometimes in tragedy we find our life’s purpose.

  Robert Brault

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• The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.

  Norman Cousins

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• I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

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• I trained in Shakespeare, and that’s all comedy, even when it’s tragedy.

  Olivia Thirlby

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• I’ve never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn’t some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn’t stand in my way.

  Ani DiFranco

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