![The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-weakness-of-modern-tragedyis-that-transgression-against-the-social-code-is.jpg)
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fate overcome patience whatever
Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it. Virgil
fate good position rests
Our fate rests in our own hands. And that's a good position to be in. Nick Vitucci
fate destiny men
No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
fate destiny politics
Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate. Big Pun
fate artist effort
No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm! Carl Maria von Weber
fate certainty-in-life manipulate
I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate. Bethenny Frankel
fate men two
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. Bernard Berenson
fate organization ideas
The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate. Arnold Schoenberg
fate greatness men
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe. Bertrand Russell
tragedy quests life-is
To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living. Charles Colson
tragedy saint has-beens
Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint. Charles Peguy
tragedy knows
I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom Carroll Quigley
tragedy comedy
Comedy = tragedy + time. Carol Burnett
tragedy way comedy
I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal. Alan Cumming
tragedy worth-living
A life without tragedy would not be worth living. Edward Abbey
tragedy action ends
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. Aristotle
tragedy wished
When the tragedy first happened, I wished there was a way I could go there and help.
tragedy together mixing
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together. Alejandro Jodorowsky
literature causes reason
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis
literature stand
Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. Charles Dickens
literature modern society
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literature rich resources
Few nations match our rich resource of literature. Charles Clarke
literature
I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out. Carl Sandburg
literature consolation ifs
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
literature wonder puzzled
Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
literature guidance enough
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
literature architecture masters
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill