Tragedy Quotes

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

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.

If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

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

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.

Comedy = tragedy + time.

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.

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

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.