Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

D. H. Lawrence
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  1. Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up. - Sarah Ockler

  2. There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster. - Dalai Lama Xiv

  3. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. - George Bernard Shaw

  4. The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole

  5. Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. - Jean Racine

More Quotes By D. H. Lawrence
  1. You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.

  2. I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.

  3. Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day and...

  4. Love is. the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

  5. In the ancient recipe the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep drink and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up from drink you become sober and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No the two...

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