We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley
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  1. Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. - D H Lawwrence

  2. It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lackof style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give usan impression... - Oscar Wilde

  3. Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day. - William Shakespeare

  4. The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives. - Albert Schweitzer

  5. Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say. - Gabrielle Zevin

More Quotes By Aldous Huxley
  1. Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

  2. It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such...

  3. The trouble with fiction, " said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

  4. La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.

  5. He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.’‘ A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth, ’ said the Savage promptly.‘ Quite so…

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