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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
Theater
John Mortimer

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Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Losers and Losing
Joe Paterno

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Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
Tragedies
Margaret Sackville

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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Tragedies
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
Statistics
Joseph Stalin

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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Tragedies
Tom Stoppard

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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
Heroes and Heroism
Source Unknown

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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
Tragedies
Stephen Vizinczey

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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Tragedies
Horace Walpole

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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Youth
Alfred North Whitehead

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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Age and Aging
Oscar Wilde

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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
World
Woodrow T. Wilson

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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Tragedies
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun