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Tragedy Quotes

Most Famous Top 10 Tragedy Quotes of All Time!

These lines remind us that missing a small goal is nothing compared to real tragedy, and that hardship has a way of putting everyone on equal footing regardless of status. One quote offers a father's raw grief over his son's accidental death. For more on loss, see Death quotes.

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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Quotes by Adam Smith

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The tragedy of the UPA is not that it didn't do anything, but that it is not able to take credit for what it has done. By staying silent when it should have been shouting from the rooftop and by...

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

8

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Quotes by Abba Eban

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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Quotes by Aaron Allston

Comedy Quotes

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The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'

Quotes by A. N. Wilson

5

My son Andrew was an extraordinary young man, loved and admired by all who knew him. His accidental death is a terrible tragedy.

Quotes by Yasmin Aga Khan

4

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

3

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Quotes by William Dean Howells

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Obama, Bloomberg, and the national gun-ban media frequently exploit tragedy, using fear and lies to sell their agenda to non-gun owners, especially when it comes to election season. This is their traditional playbook.

Quotes by Wayne LaPierre

Death Quotes

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There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

Quotes by Walter Hagen

Tragedy shows up in both small frustrations and life-altering loss, and this set honors both ends of that spectrum with honesty. Continue with Life and Comedy quotes for contrasting perspectives.