Top 100 Quotes About Tragedy
#1. Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.
Katie J. Davis
#2. I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.
Paula Heller Garland
#3. The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
Milton Friedman
#4. All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that's the tragedy of living.
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#5. The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by this don't realize that this power is really coming from within.
Terry Pratchett
#6. Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so
Paulo Coelho
#7. Without tragedy, you have time. What you lack are priorities.
Ben Tolosa
#9. Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Rita Mae Brown
#10. LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
#11. The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.
Paul Bremer
#12. The tragedy of war is that it uses mas's best to do man's worst.
H. E. Fosdick
#13. I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.
Roberto Benigni
#14. This is the tragedy of almost every civilization - that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.
Will Durant
#15. Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
Nicolas Chamfort
#16. I think it's a tragedy that our schools don't teach kids about money. I think it's a tragedy that it has to come to an emergency before we evolve.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. A dream conceived from the inside-out eventually becomes reality. But a dream desired from the outside-in is subject to spoil and tragedy.
T.F. Hodge
#18. Old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen was, Isabel had always felt, a moral tragedy for medicine.
Alexander McCall Smith
#19. I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart.
Antonio
Rudolfo Anaya
#20. The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.
Anatole Broyard
#21. The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.
Henri Nouwen
#22. Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
#23. The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
C. G. Jung
#24. I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.
Andre Dubus III
#25. The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
Alan Lightman
#26. While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#27. It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.
Andrea Dworkin
#28. Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.
Louise Slaughter
#29. It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.
Stephen Gaghan
#30. The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.
Fulton J. Sheen
#31. In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.
Vincent Nichols
#32. Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?
Eugene Mirman
#33. Calculated risk is an opportunity;
careless risk a potential tragedy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#34. To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
Bobby Ghosh
#35. The Bible opens with a tragedy and ends in a triumph.
Billy Graham
#36. When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy.
Debasish Mridha
#37. His favourite entertainments were intellectual rather than social; he went to public lectures and visited the observatory, the theatre and the opera. 'Tragedy excites the soul,' he later told one of his secretaries, 'lifts the heart, can and ought to create heroes.'24
Andrew Roberts
#38. And for a second she weakens, and the way she used to look at him flashes across her face, and then it's gone, replaced by near hate. It's the saddest thing he's ever seen. It's a tragedy.
Luke Smitherd
#39. ..I marvelled at the intense beauty of this human relationship that was born out of so much love and was destined, perhaps inevitably, to end in a tragedy of such terrible proportions.
Arun Joshi
#40. There has to be some way this won't end in tragedy. Why can't Romeo and Juliet live happily ever after? It's as if the universe won't abide such a strong connection in such a disconnected world, as if our connection defies the natural order.
Kitty Thomas
#41. I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea."
Eva Mendes
#42. Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#43. It was like Romeo and Juliet with those two."
"Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy.
Michael Rowe
#44. The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
Aaron Allston
#45. I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.
Dan Groat
#47. Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique.
Judith Martin
#48. The tragedy in the lives of the people is in what does not happen, rather than in what does happen -in all they do not realise.
Ethel Carnie -Miss Nobody
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
#49. The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
Albert Einstein
#50. Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
James Thurber
#51. If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.
James Mangold
#52. Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#53. The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
W.B.Yeats
#54. I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.
Grover Norquist
#56. You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
Samuel Johnson
#57. It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.
Jim Gerlach
#58. It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.
Bill Johnson
#59. Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on.
G. Norman Lippert
#61. The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
Larry MacPhail
#62. Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
Jack Dee
#63. It is there, in the final moments, for people whose farthest horizon has always been tomorrow, that one comprehends the profound tragedy circumscribing the life of the proletariat the world over.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#64. News is just news until it happens to you. Then it's tragedy.
J. Lincoln Fenn
#65. Tragedy can turn your life around if you're open to it.
Sue Grafton
#66. And to think I survived this deadly workload, only to be murdered by the sight of my parents' bare asses, a tragedy that gives a whole new meaning to the word assassination.
Megan McCafferty
#67. Good pictures. Tragedy and violence certainly make powerful images. It is what we get paid for.But there is a price extracted with every such frame: some of the emotion, the vulnerability, the empathy that makes us human, is lost every time the shutter is released.
Greg Marinovich
#68. Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views.
Geoffrey Howe
#69. A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.
Joyce Cary
#70. War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
David Mamet
#71. The Tragedy isn't Autism - The Tragedy is the lack of understanding of Autism, Lack of resources, Interventions not being met with the person in mind and Assumptions being made about the person.
Paul Isaacs
#72. You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
Colin Powell
#73. Argos the greatest tragedy in Greek legend was
Will Durant
#74. You can't keep acting like this," Lillian says, and for the first time in months, it's like she's actually trying to be nice. "Tragedy isn't this evil thing that came from outer space. It's just there, you know. Along with everything else.
Brenna Yovanoff
#75. Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer
#76. The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
Maxwell Anderson
#77. A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.
Stephen King
#78. By this edition of HAMLET I hope to help the student of Shakspere to understand the play - and first of all Hamlet himself, whose spiritual and moral nature are the real material of the tragedy, to
George MacDonald
#79. The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.
Leon Bloy
#80. In moments of comfort, prepare for adversity.
In moments of misfortune, hope for prosperity.
In moments of blessing, plan for tragedy.
In moments of danger, fight for victory.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#81. Joy turns tears into laughter.
Hope turns mourning into gladness.
Wisdom turns tragedy into fortune.
Faith turns defeat into triumph.
Love turns enmity into friendship.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#82. In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
Lady Gregory
#83. The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her unreal; and us solemn, and self-conscious. We were made to act parts that we did not feel; to fumble for words that we did not know. It obscured, it dulled.
Virginia Woolf
#84. Groundhog Day was pretty clean. It may have to do with some puritanical feeling that comedy is a forbidden pleasure in a certain way. They make you laugh, and laughter is somehow an inferior emotion to tragedy.
Harold Ramis
#85. There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
Mark Twain
#86. Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props.
Lindsey Leavitt
#87. Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.
Barry B. Powell
#88. That's the tragedy of falling in love; it brings with it the potential for loss.
Sarah Rayner
#89. Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
Xenocrates
#90. On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.
Peter Hoeg
#91. There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children ... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.
Jackson Katz
#92. Tragedy is a storm we all must weather, my friend. To let it break you is the worst tragedy of all. Instead we stand tall in defiance and wear a smile when all reason for smiling has left us.
Michael James Ploof
#93. More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
Joyce Maynard
#94. It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
Sara Zarr
#95. I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev.
Tariq Ali
#96. All life was lived within the close proximity of tragedy.
Fran Seen
#97. Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.
Douglas Coupland
#98. Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
Eric Idle
#99. It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.
Albert Camus
#100. Domesticity. Times when one wonders if Medea is a tragedy or a goddamn wish fulfillment.
Brian McGreevy
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