Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

quote by Edward Dowden
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Polonius: The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men.

line from the play Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Branded

Tragic is the self misplaced.
Tragic is a lost identity...
And no familiarity on anyone's face.
Tragic in denial
Sits the misfits feeling on trial
For lives lived reeking and stinking of bile.
Tragic for them,
Love is not recognized at all...
Nor suitable to start,
From a place within them that begins.
And this becomes tragic for those
Unlike them but comprehending,
These tragedies
May not always be self inflicted...
As they are branded!

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

quote by Helen Hayes
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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

classic quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

quote by Jessica Lange
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Tragedy is nothing new

I am still in love with you
Tragedy is nothing new.

I still don’t understand you
Tragedy is nothing new.

I still feel sad without you
Tragedy is nothing new.

I still can’t make love with you
Tragedy is nothing new.

poem by Asif Andalib
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One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

classic quote by Stalin
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It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

quote by Glenn Close
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Seek for the comedy in all the tragedies!

quote by Leon Rubin (5 May 2016)
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

classic quote by Jean Cocteau
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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot

classic quote by Charlie Chaplin
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Love is the second smile of our tragedy. Yet maybe the very first.

classic aphorism by Lucian Blaga from The Discobolus (1945), translated by Dan Costinaş
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The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

quote by Shirley Hazzard
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Don't Talk Song

Don't talk to me about tragedies
Because I had all the tragedies
That are written in my books
And I had survived all of them
Don't talk to me about the bad weather
Because that weather makes me very tired

poem by Aldo Kraas
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

classic quote by William Butler Yeats
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Tragedy

Here I lie
in a lost and lonely part of town
Held in time
In a world of tears I slowly drown
Goin'home
I just can't make it all alone
I really should be holding you
Holding you
Loving you loving you

Tragedy
When the feeling's gone and you can't go on
It's tragedy
When the morning cries and you don't know why
It's hard to bear
With no-one to love you you're
goin' nowhere
Tragedy
When you lose control and you got no soul
It's tragedy

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song performed by Bee Gees from Spirits Having Flown
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

quote by Wislawa Szymborska
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Beautiful Life

Forming tragedies, the beautiful life is an existence to experience,
Once life is forgiven, the tragedy has disappeared, resulting in abundance.

poem by Naveed Akram
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World history is tragic.

quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt
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