Being Irish, I have an abiding sense of tragedy which sustains me through temporary periods of joy.
W.B. Yeats
Category Archives: TRAGEDY
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Elizabeth I
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In making your escape, where is it you’re going to?
Do you plan to creep back in here where you emerged from?
Opening her robe to expose her virgina, a mother confronts her son who had fled from a battle.
http://www.ancientgreekbattles.net/Pages/47931_Spartaquotes.htm
I don’t need drugs to make my life tragic
Eddie Vedder (1965)
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.”
— Benjamin Mays
Before you can break out of prison, you must realize you are locked up.
“I think that it is a great tragedy that a child can lose their mother, father, sister or brother, because you and I made a decision that getting loaded was more important than they are.”
― Pamela Barrett, Tales of the Titmouse
Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.”
― William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
“A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land. But you throw him in the shark tank and he’s just another meal.” Renzo Gracie
Overheard at O’Banion’s Beer Emporium: “Pardon me, darlin’, but I’m writin’ a telephone book. C’n I have yer number?” ―
Henry D. Spalding, Lilt of the Irish: Encyclopaedia of Irish Folklore and Humour
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
― W.B. Yeats
Play from the heart; the flute is a heart song… like a sweet prayer, and it will teach you as well as you teach yourself.
Mato Wambli
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“Ginger: You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?… It’s all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they’re really good at. It’s all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It’s all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become bad plowmen instead. It’s all the people with talents who never even find out. Maybe they are never even born in a time when it’s even possible to find out. It’s all the people who never get to know what it is that they can really be. It’s all the wasted chances.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
