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Quotes about tragedies
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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. (Danforth John)
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. (Danforth John)
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. (Danforth John)
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. (Danforth John)
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? (Danforth John)
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. (Danforth John)
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. (Danforth John)
The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them. (Danforth John)
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. (Danforth John)
We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. (Danforth John)
When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped. (Danforth John)
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. (Danforth John)
Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. (Danforth John)
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. (Danforth John)
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. (Danforth John)
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. (Danforth John)
There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time. (Danforth John)
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. (Danforth John)
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. (Danforth John)
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. (Danforth John)
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. (Danforth John)
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. (Danforth John)
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. (Danforth John)
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. (Danforth John)
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. (Danforth John)
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