Modern Tragedy Quotes

• La tragedia de la guerra moderna es que los jóvenes mueren luchando entre sí, en lugar de contra sus verdaderos enemigos en las capitales.

  Edward Abbey

  Paz, Real, Guerra

  Edward Abbey (2015). "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness", p.18, RosettaBooks.

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• Lo trágico es que nadie ve la expresión de desesperación en mi rostro. Somos miles y miles, y nos cruzamos sin mirarnos.

  Henry Miller

  Miedo, Realidad, Tragedia

  Henry Miller (1961). "The Cosmological Eye", p.335, New Directions Publishing

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• This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

  Salvador Dalí

  Art, Tragedy, Modern

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• Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Heartbroken, War, Winning

  "Farhadi Talks Oscar Front-Runner A Separation; Divorce Drama Questions Iran’s Future". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 30, 2011.

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• It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Tragedy, Despair, Modern

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• It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.

  George McGovern

  War, Intelligent, Men

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• La debilidad de la tragedia moderna [es que] la transgresión del código social se hace para traer la destrucción, como si el código social trabajara nuestro destino irrevocable.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fate, Tragedy, Weakness

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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• God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Father, Fate, Tragedy

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• I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Tragedy, Diagnosis

  Entrevista con Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. 16 de noviembre de 2000.

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