Tragedy Quotes
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.
The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!
It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.
The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope.
A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.
One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.
Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age
Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.
Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.
When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.
The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
