Top 100 Tragedy Of Quotes
#2. The beauty and the tragedy of the modern world is that it eliminates many situations that require people to demonstrate a commitment to the collective good.
Sebastian Junger
#3. The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.
Wil S. Hylton
#4. It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light.
Plato
#5. The tragedy of life is not so much what
men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle
#6. The paradox of this arrangement was not lost on Lewis Mumford, who described suburbia as "a collective effort to live a private life." In many ways, this goes to the heart of the matter, for it is a project based on self-contradiction - the tragedy of American domestic
Morris Berman
#7. As far as the environment is concerned, I am becoming pessimistic because I do not see anybody stepping up and taking the long view approach. It seems like we're stuck in a tragedy of the commons where everyone is trying to contribute as little as possible to get out of this situation.
Frans De Waal
#8. I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.
Lake Bell
#9. The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
Walter Scott
#10. The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you'll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you'll dress in black to mourn your soul deceased.
Roman Payne
#11. The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.
Theodore Roosevelt
#12. 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
#14. The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. 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
#16. To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions" -Agatha Swanburne
Maryrose Wood
#17. The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust; rags to rags; fear to fear.
V.S. Naipaul
#18. It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Loren Eiseley
#19. The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
Albert Einstein
#20. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
#21. It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
Benjamin E. Mays
#22. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.
Leila Sales
#23. Tragedy of life is not to have many purposes in life, but to have no purpose in life.
Debasish Mridha
#24. All our skill at disproving things is like a wall we build between us and wonder. To jump that wall, you need a long running start.-The Tragedy of Arthur
Arthur Phillips
#25. It was part of the beauty, but also the tragedy, of this sport that the spectators were the ultimate judges of who sat on the throne.
Walter Moers
#26. People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
Curt Flood
#28. The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.
Miriam Makeba
#30. When did this story morph? When did it change from a tale of two to a tragedy of three?
Ella Frank
#31. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.
K'naan
#32. The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.
Jay Rayner
#33. Love has turned to be a sad tragedy of my life even we both are alive
Seema Gupta
#34. The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.
Moshe Katsav
#35. When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity
Kenny Anderson
#36. The biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
John Galsworthy
#38. The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Edward Abbey
#39. Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow
#40. We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.
Hassan Blasim
#41. The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy - that is every man's tragedy.
Philip Roth
#42. There's never enough information ... That's the great tragedy of human knowledge. No matter how much we think we know, we can never predict the future.
Orson Scott Card
#43. 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.
#44. This, for Homer, is the tragedy of being human: to desire freedom, and be tortured by a sense of autonomy, and yet be imprisoned by forces beyond our control.
Kenan Malik
#45. Nothing to be done about it now, she thought. You can relive a moment again and again and again. But you can't change it. That's the tragedy of time. "See?
Barbara J. Taylor
#46. That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.
Charles Coburn
#47. Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
Richard Le Gallienne
#49. The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
F.B. Meyer
#50. That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them - that is the tragedy of life.
Henry Miller
#51. Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating.
Karen Armstrong
#52. It is the tragedy of a distinguished mind and a generous nature that have gone unappreciated in a conventional, unimaginative world. A victim of men's incomprehension of women, a symptom of women's mistrust of men.
Francis Wyndham
#53. O'Neill was perceptive enough to understand the country had a new leader that it wanted to believe in. After the tragedy of Dallas, after the quicksand of Vietnam, the scandal of Watergate, and the "malaise" of Jimmy Carter, it needed one.
Chris Matthews
#54. Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.
Clay Shirky
#55. The main thing we should be focused on is the strategy to destroy ISIS. And I laid out a plan that the Reagan Library before the tragedy of Paris, and before San Bernardino to do just that. It requires leadership, it's not filing an amendment and call it a success.
Jeb Bush
#56. The great tragedy of our lives seems to be that we are smart enough to ask the questions of meaning but too dumb to really figure it out.
Donald Miller
#57. Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.
Chuck Palahniuk
#58. Beware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He will forgive us. That thought, based solely on emotion, cannot be found anywhere in the New Testament. The only basis on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the Cross of Christ.
Oswald Chambers
#59. Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.
Leo Tolstoy
#60. What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.
Thomas Sowell
#61. Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.
Martin Jacques
#62. You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.
Harold Ramis
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.
Neale Donald Walsch
#66. Heracles' heroic world and Deianeira's warmth and tenderness are mutually exclusive. Sophocles seeks not to vindicate the one against the other, but to dramatize the tragedy of their irreconcilability and their mutual destructiveness.
Charles Segal
#67. How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?
Vachel Lindsay
#68. It is a national tragedy of incalculable proportions....What is wrong with the United States that it can provide the environment for such an act? There is sickness in the nation when political differences cannot be accepted and settled in the democratic way.
(from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
United Press International
#69. Marriage
yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.
Mark Twain
#70. It's the eternal tragedy of being gay in Bombay," I lamented. "Never a place to yourself." With city rents so high, most sons lived with their parents until marriage - and usually well after as well.
Manil Suri
#71. The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
Vaclav Havel
#72. Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.
Shirley Maclaine
#74. It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.
Abhijit Naskar
#75. The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.
Morton Feldman
#76. Yet, after some time, he wearied of them, and would sit in his box at the opera, either alone or with Lord Henry, listening in rapt pleasure to "Tannhauser" and seeing in the prelude to that great work of art a presentation of the tragedy of his own soul.
Oscar Wilde
#78. The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
Maggie Gallagher
#79. Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
Gail Sheehy
#80. And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
Lester B. Pearson
#81. This kind of totalization of security consciousness [after tragedy of 9/11] has the effect within classrooms (and beyond) of constraining the imagination and reinforcing attitudes that privilege the forces of law and order as against the crosscurrents of freedom and dissent.
Richard A. Falk
#82. We can easily forgive a child for being afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light
~Plato~
S.S. Segran
#83. In the rain-swept afternoon
my heart discovers
the tragedy of autumn
raining from the trees.
Martin Sorrell
#84. This is the tragedy of knowing my fate: I have seen how it ends, and I will walk right into it, and nothing will change.
Kiersten White
#85. It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#86. Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer within. Far fewer people understand the tragedy of disowning the hero within.
Nathaniel Branden
#87. The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#88. The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
E. M. Forster
#89. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Terri Garey
#90. One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy
implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs by-everyone else: a "tragedy of the commons" is created.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#91. That is the tragedy of losing an older brother. He stays still. You keep on and one day become the older one. It's unnatural, that reversal. It's the thing that keeps the family from ever being whole again.
Tiffany McDaniel
#92. The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#93. Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.
Henning Mankell
#94. If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.
Michael Bloomberg
#95. The incredible tragedy of jealousy is that it does not deliver to the person possessing it anything except a vexed spirit, a nasty attitude and a silly disposition.
Lance D. Watson
#96. At times I suffered from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me. I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night.
H.G.Wells
#97. His thoughts are unfathomable & her emotions are all over the place. Oh! The tragedy of Love.
Ankita Singhal
#98. I keep wishing you had had a better life ... a different life. But a different life would have made you a different Blue." He looked at me then. "And that would be the biggest tragedy of all.
Amy Harmon
#99. This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.
Kurt Vonnegut
#100. The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
Louise Brooks
