#tragedy

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#delights #exists #pain #pleasure #shadow

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#fail #fortune #good #good fortune #happiness

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy. ↗

— Amy Tan

#been #case #different #first #first time

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#life #loses #man #tragedy #wins

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#both sides #civil #civil war #country #displayed

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy. ↗

— Curt Flood

#happy #i #life #make #my life

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#even #i #shakespeare #tragedy #trained

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East. ↗

— King Hussein I

#east #fact #just #middle #middle east

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#gift #loss #music #out #really

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#child #childhood #daughter #except #garland