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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.

~ Michael Shermer

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An Abyss is a deep and terrible chasm. What’s a chasm? A deep gash in the rocks.

~ Diane Samuels

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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really

~ Marianne Williamson

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Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces, they that enter there Must go upon their knees.

~ John Webster

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Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head - doesn't this feed the monster? You can't close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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And she cries even more, for the way the universe keeps throwing her together with the players in her son's tragedy, like handfuls of dust.

~ Clara Chow

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We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come second—compare the parallel in painting, where the most beautiful colours laid on without order will not give one the same pleasure as a simple black-and-white sketch of a portrait.

~ Aristotle

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I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Madeleine L'engle Optimism Tragedy

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d’etats on the state of irrational optimism

~ Dean Cavanagh

Dean Cavanagh Dean Cavanagh Life Optimism Tragedy

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

~ Richard M. Weaver

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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin D. Yalom Perspective Tragedy

Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.

~ Chris Crutcher

Chris Crutcher Comedy Perspective Tragedy

The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing. In the left-hand corner is a tiny ocean the size of a palm, and there, I can barely make it out, the two legs of a man who fell headlong into the sea. This is called the Fall of Icarus. Compared to everyday life, the fall of an idealist who flew too high with candle-wax wings is an unremarkable tragedy.

~ Hwang Sok-Yong

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I seek to sensitize and clarify the essential elements of my soul. I will leave striving for the flags of fame and fortune behind and go where the soul beckons without fearing the decisive outcome. I will travel in a world without boundaries and embrace danger and awe. I will stand as a witness to comedy, beauty, and tragedy and apply the principles of artistic and ascetic forms of awareness to overcome the inherent frustration of enduring a fundamentally painful human existence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.

~ Julian Barnes

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It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

~ Andrea Dworkin

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When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story.

~ Rachel Higginson

Rachel Higginson End Love Story Tragedy

Why couldn't he see the tragedy of what was unfolding? Was it because it was too painful, or was it because holding onto hope and dying was better than living if it meant you were forced to see the world for what it was?

~ Chris Dietzel

Chris Dietzel Acceptance Pain Tragedy

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.

~ Debasish Mridha

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Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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I’d accepted my judgment without question. Agreed to live a mortal life. I didn’t know my memories would come with me, didn’t know I’d relive them every day.Death would have been more merciful.

~ Christine Fonseca

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Cass pulls from my embrace, her mind reaching into my heart. Pain, anger, confusion pass through her eyes. My pain. My anger. My confusion. She swallows hard. “Because?”“Because I traded it all, my heart, my memories, everything. For her.

~ Christine Fonseca

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Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not existand the one who exists I do not see.

~ Kedar Joshi

Kedar Joshi Existence Life Tragedy

In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom.

~ Harrison Scott Key

Harrison Scott Key Boredom Childhood Humor Tragedy

That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault. Lulu

~ Ruth Reichl

Ruth Reichl Childhood Tragedy

It is clear looking at statistics of inventions, discoveries and fortune 500 companies, that it is not the believers that are managing the affairs of the earth. What a tragedy!!!

~ Sunday Adelaja

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You don't have to be strong to survive a bad situation, you simply need a plan.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.

~ Amy Denise

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Nobody should have to die like these people had. I didn't know each of their circumstances, but I had a good guess. These people had died in terror, horror, and pain. More than likely, they had to watch their friends or loved ones die at the same time. Their last moments would have been spent knowing that they would come back and do the same to anyone they could get their hands on, even people they'd spent their life loving.It was not the way any human being should have to go.

~ Rose Wynters

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What if you're the angel I sought and me the ghost you loved, and we both knew, we belong to different place.

~ J. Limbu

J. Limbu Dark Love Romance Tragedy

My mood depends on the girl whom I love, but she is like a wildest hurricane, drifting shore to shore.

~ J. Limbu

J. Limbu Dark Girl Life Love Romance Tragedy

It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (...): the absurd pretension that human nature could be dominated by the power of the law. Reducing it all to a summary of a few pages, organizing the facts, judging it, archiving it, and forgetting it. That simple. And yet in the silence of that place you could hear the murmur of the written words, of the key players, the screams of the victims, the hatred never forgotten by either party, the pain that never went away.

~ Víctor Del Árbol

Víctor Del Árbol Human Life Justice System Law Tragedy

I’d watched the election of Barack Obama with them, in Harlem: the celebration had spilled out onto the streets and erupted into dancing, outdoor champagne-drinking, euphoria. This [the 1/21/17 Women's March on Washington, DC] was different. It was like laughter at a funeral—what else can you do but hold on to who you are and who you love? What can you do but try to stay sane and fight like hell for what life is all about?

~ Sarah Larson

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I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world.

~ Lacie Baskerville Pandora Hearts

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We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even something as petty as being scorned or disdained by a stranger on a street corner). We try not to carry these things over to tomorrow. It is not strange, therefore, that the whole human race is trying to put Hiroshima, the extreme point of human tragedy, completely out of mind.

~ Kenzaburō Ōe

Kenzaburō Ōe History Responsibility Tragedy

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

~ Andrew Bernstein

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She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she'll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom.

~ Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman Sorrow Tragedy
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