Real Tragedies Quotes

#1. There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

John Powell

#2. The real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar Wilde

#3. You can look at my life and say there've been some real tragedies, and there have been. But there've also been some exquisitely beautiful times. To me, those far outweigh the others.

Ellen Bass

#4. Life has its share of joys and laughter - but we also know life's road is often very rough. Temptations assail us; people disappoint us; illness and age weaken us; tragedies and sorrows ambush us; evil and injustice overpower us. Life is hard - but God is good, and heaven is real!

Billy Graham

#5. I thought of Al in his dream, looking nothing like this, more like an elegant bat. Broken? Perhaps, but I had put his butterfly back together with my blood. "I never liked the movie Titanic," I said, and he grunted, his gaze sharpening on me. "They both could have gotten on that damn door.

Kim Harrison

#6. He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Annie Proulx

#8. They judged me like they would judge themselves and that's what they could never understand, we are all human but we are not the same.

Nikki Rowe

#9. Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.

Gregg Allman

#10. But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.

Georgette Heyer

#11. Every trader has strengths and weakness. Some are good holders of winners, but may hold their losers a little too long. Others may cut their winners a little short, but are quick to take their losses. As long as you stick to your own style, you get the good and bad in your own approach.

Michael Marcus

#12. Whatever's most important to you is your god. If it's not the Rock Christ Jesus, then it's sand!

Raymond Berry

#13. Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

Kevin James

#14. The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right.

Vikas Swarup

#15. The only way to see true reality is in solitude. One of the tragedies of human existence is that reality cannot be shared. What's real to you may not be to someone else.

Tristan Jones

#16. Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated

Franz Kafka

#17. The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#18. On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Bobby Jindal

#19. And when the clothes are strewn, don't be afraid of the room, touch the fullness of her breast, feel the love of her caress ... she will be your living end.

David Bowie

#20. Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.

Robin Sharma

#21. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies ...

Gregg Allman

#22. Out here, in the cold, with the moon and the huge stars overhead and with kind, merry faces all round them, one couldn't quite believe in Underland.

C.S. Lewis

#23. All he would have needed to do, to find comfort in the Christian's words, was to believe.

Michael Chabon

#24. I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real.

Alan Lightman

#25. It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

H.L. Mencken

#26. All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.

Henry Miller

#27. It's the reality: film is a director's medium, and, ultimately, they are the ones that are in charge, and you have to respect that because somebody has to be in charge. But, yeah, you do reach a point where you want to have your voice come out.

Dan Gilroy