tragedies quotes

• The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [moment/night/tragedies/duties]
• The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [human/experience/tragedies/life]
• 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. (George Santayana) [tragedies/charm/danger]
• 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. (Oscar Wilde) [tragedies]
• It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. (Oscar Wilde) [tragedies/life/absolute/absurd]
• I think one of the dangers of great tragedies like this is, once they fall away from the 24-hour news cycle, there's a tendency to think, `Well that's dealt with. (Ben Affleck) [think/tragedies/news/think]
• “It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.” (Anne Heche) [tragedies]
• “Those of us who were here and have had the privilege to cover it, and to witness these triumphs and these tragedies, will never forget it and will carry it with us. That's part of the fear of leaving, that people will forget and coverage will go elsewhere. And there are so many answers we need to get.” (Anderson Cooper) [tragedies/willpower/forget/willpower]
• We have survived lots of tragedies. (Dale Evans) [tragedies]
• One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto. (Stokely Carmichael) [tragedies/speak/people]

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