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The Best Quotes About Tragedy  

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A list of the best tragedy quotes and sayings, including the names of each speaker or author when available. This list is sorted by popularity, so only the most famous tragedy quotes are at the top. The authors of these historic tragedy quotes are displayed next to each quote, so if you see one you like be sure to check out other inspirational tragedy quotes from that same writer.

This list answers the questions, "What are the best quotes about tragedy?" and "What are inspirational tragedy quotes?"

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Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. D. H. Lawrence
When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped. Samuel Johnson
“It’s all right. Things as they once were will never be again, but it’s all right.” Janet Morris
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. Aristotle
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. Horace Walpole
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. Percy Bysshe Shelley
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. Stephen Vizinczey
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? Emil Cioran
We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. Aldous Huxley
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. Ludwig Wittgenstein
It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes. Dorothy Parker
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. Antonin Artaud