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Tragic Quotes - Page 4

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

Edward Abbey
Ridiculous, Tragic
Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

David Hyde Pierce
Sometimes, Tragic, Situation

In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

Constance Rourke
Differences, Comedy, Tragic

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Cecelia Ahern
Issues, Years, Tragic
Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

C. S. Lewis
Taste, Kind, Tragic

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