The Greatest Tragedy Quotes

#1. The greatest tragedy of mankind," Dalio says, "comes from the inability of people to have thoughtful disagreement to find out what's true." Through

Adam M. Grant

#2. The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

Helen Keller

#3. The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.

Raheel Farooq

#4. The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

James Carlos Blake

#5. The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#6. It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'

John Ridley

#7. Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

Robin Roberts

#8. History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#10. The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

F.B. Meyer

#12. That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven of dreams, the dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything.

Laini Taylor

#13. The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

Daisaku Ikeda

#14. The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

Myles Munroe

#15. I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

Emil Cioran

#16. The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

C. G. Jung

#17. The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

Albert Einstein

#18. Argos the greatest tragedy in Greek legend was

Will Durant

#19. The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

Helen Keller

#20. The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#22. To be treated with indifference is the greatest tragedy a Human Soul can suffer.

Tonny K. Brown

#23. What is a defeat? It is just a good opportunity to make a new start, nothing else! Defeat is by no means a tragedy, but to consider it as a tragedy is in fact the greatest tragedy! In your every defeat, you must know that the paths of the victory never disappear; try those roads again!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. The greatest Tragedy of life is not death but what dies within us when we are still alive

Norman

#25. The dead can't love the living but the living can love the dead, and that was the greatest tragedy of her life. "You

Tiffany Reisz

#26. The greatest tragedy in life is our inability to experience and express fascination for the people and events we love while in their presence.

Darrell Calkins

#27. The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

Rick Warren

#28. Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.

Vidkun Quisling

#29. The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.

David Whyte

#30. Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

Norman Cousins

#31. The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.

Yair Lapid

#32. The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might be filled with compassion," and being now prepared to reach down and help us, he is forbidden because we won't let him. We look down instead of up.

Truman G. Madsen

#33. The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally.

Bob Parr

#34. And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.

Vasily Grossman

#35. I've come to realize that you can fight a lot of things in life, but you can't help who you love. You can't change who your heart chooses. I'm afraid that very fact will be the greatest tragedy of my life.

Sarah Jio

#36. It would be the greatest tragedy if I didn't tell you that unless you repent of your sins and receive Christ as your Savior, you are going to be lost.

Billy Graham

#37. Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and chequered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture.

John R.W. Stott

#38. Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

Ellen Glasgow

#39. The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Arthur C. Clarke

#40. We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.

N. Scott Momaday

#41. Isn't that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.

Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#42. Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

Oscar Wilde

#43. we are all born/ so beautiful/ the greatest tragedy is/ being convinced we are not

Rupi Kaur

#44. The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.

Mark Batterson

#45. Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Arthur E. Morgan

#46. The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.

Mark Batterson

#47. The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

George Santayana

#48. Addie was the greatest joy of Celia's life. Not a burden. Not a tragedy. A gift. A gift that God had perhaps insisted on giving her even when, in fear, she'd asked for the opposite.

Becky Wade

#49. The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

Abraham Lincoln

#50. God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.

Nick Frost

#51. Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.

Howard Barker

#52. One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.

K.L. Toth

#53. The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

Kedar Joshi

#54. Tragedies can contain some of life's greatest rewards and valuable lessons. Struggle makes you stronger. Pain makes you alert. Clouds bring forth the rain. As a wise man once said, 'You seek problems because you need their gifts.' Why would you rob someone of these benefits?

Brownell Landrum

#55. She's Verglas's greatest tragedy and last hope: the Princess Rakel.

K.M. Shea

#56. It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#57. Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

Franklin Graham

#58. 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

#59. Every tragedy is unique, just as every human is unique. When a person loses someone dear to her, who am I to say that my tragedy was greater? I have no right. For that person, her tragedy is the greatest in the world - and she is right in thinking so.

Elie Wiesel

#60. In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

Shmuley Boteach

#61. The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

Robert Shea

#62. We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.

George R R Martin

#63. Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

Andrei Codrescu

#64. The kind of death you should mourn over is the one that happen when you abort your potentials prematurely! Life without purpose is a tragedy!

Israelmore Ayivor

#65. Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America's largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.

Michael Bloomberg

#66. Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

Frank Brady

#67. There is something more dangerous than the death of one's body. It is "the undiscovered self"; being alive without knowing why.

Israelmore Ayivor

#68. One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

Benjamin Franklin

#69. There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement.

James Stephens

#70. The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

Benjamin E. Mays

#71. The greatest human tragedy is to give up the search. Nothing is of greater importance than the life of our deep heart. To lose heart is to lose everything.

John Eldredge

#72. The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.

Denzel Washington

#73. One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Ben Kingsley

#74. I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

Sam Ervin

#75. The greatest drawback to true love was that once true love unexpectedly ends there is no other romance that can replace it. Romance instead becomes a race, with one's new beau consistently failing to meet up to the grand expectations set by the meaning of one's existence. The only one.

Denis Fitzpatrick