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| Den som har överlevt en tragedi har inte varit dess hjälte. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Den verkliga aristokratin i världen och det verkliga proletariatet förstår båda tragedin och dess ide. För dem är den själva Guds plan med världen och livets tonart. Däri skiljer de sig från bourgeoisin i alla samhällsklasser, som förnekar tragedin. | Karen Blixen (1885-1962) |
| I denna världen finns det bara två tragedier. Den ena är att inte få det hjärtat begär, den andra är att få det. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Livet är en tragedi på nära håll men en komedi när man ser det på avstånd. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| Man ska inte ta saker och ting lika tragiskt som de är. | Karl Valentin |
| Tragedi är att inte ha en enda självständig tanke och bli förföljd som intellektuell. | Gabriel Laub |
| Tragedin är vanligen att man lever vidare, inte att man dör. | Gianearlo Menotti |
| Vi kan lätt förlåta ett barn som är rädd för mörkret; den verkliga tragedin i livet, är när män är rädda för ljuset. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Öga mot öga med det tragiska har gudarna den goda smaken att förhålla sig passiva och undvika att lägga sig i. | Karen Blixen (1885-1962) |
| Tragedie er, når jeg skærer min finger. Komedie er, når du falder i en åben kloak og dør. | Mel Brooks (1926-) |
| In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. | Christopher Fry (1907-2005) |
| Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. | Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) |
| The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature | Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) |
| I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are. | Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) |
| 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 (1941-) |
| There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and our mission is never to let it. | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| 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 blooming outside our windows today. | Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) |
| Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends. | Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) |
| Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. | Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) |
| The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. | Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) |
| Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. | Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) |
| The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. | Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) |
| In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. | Christopher Fry (1907-2005) |
| Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. | Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) |
| War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. | George Clemenceau (1841-1929) |
| Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| The tragedy, the true catastrophe, is that humanity continues | Louis Wolfson |
| That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature | Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) |
| I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are. | Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) |
| Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid. | William Faulkner (1897-1962) |