#tragedi

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#gain #heart #life #lose #other

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#events #liars #make #own #people

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#disappointment #love #soul #tragedies #love

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life #only #other #tragedies #two

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#deeper #denial #even #extensive #falsely

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#ghosts #his #into #introduces #knowledge

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#alone #any #arrive #cannot #dramatic

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#day #life #mother #next #one day

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#becomes #certain #certain age #commonplace #death