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

  • 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.

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

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

    War   Intelligent   Men  
  • The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

    Fear   Reality   Tragedy  
    Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.335, New Directions Publishing
  • 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.

    Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.
  • This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

    Art   Tragedy   Modern  
  • 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?

    Father   Fate   Tragedy  
  • The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

    Peace   Real   War  
    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks
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