Tragedy Quotes

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious reg...

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the ...

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ...

Then she gave one last burst of music. The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingere...

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us...

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail,...

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have reboun...

– The life of the worlds is a roaring river, but Earth’s is a pond and a backwater.– The sign of doo...

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility t...

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if peo...

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the...

Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the bea...

One hardly need believe that the events in your life are actually planned as bolts from the blue, se...

My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy...

After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's Go...

There were six hundred thousand Indian troops in Kashmir but the pogrom of the pandits was not preve...

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there ...

I can't go on, I'll go on.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in h...

A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences...

When you make a film, if you are an insider, you're usually the last person to know that your film i...

Francis stared down at the Duchess of York's letter. He swallowed, then read aloud in a husky voice,...

I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the...

And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper ha...

OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no m...

JOCASTA:So clear in this case were the oracles,so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;what God...

CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles a...

TEIRESIAS:I tell you, king, this man, this murderer(whom you have long declared you are in search of...

TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom whenit brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew w...

TEIRESIAS:You have your eyes but see not where you arein sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live ...

OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many...

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, ...

The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic...

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little a...

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

They are tragic,' said Vetinari, 'and we laugh at their tragedy as we laugh at our own. The painted ...

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes;To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes.For h...

My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ Tha...

Comedies are fit for common wits: But to present a kingly troop withal, Give me a stately-written tr...

We cannot institutionalize helping the "victims" of personal disasters.

The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of ...

You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, th...

...it struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their sp...

Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was th...

The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit,...

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffe...

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the yo...

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given...

Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and la...

But I had deliberately acquired the habit of closing my eyes even to such obvious assumptions, just ...

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

Love can be a very frightening thing.”“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

I loved her- I always loved her- no matter what she was-I wanted her safe- not shut up- a prisoner f...

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which th...

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's t...

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with th...

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tr...

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, h...

The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

Let me here remind you that the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the so...

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very p...

A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains e...

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punis...

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force ...

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intel...

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated f...

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin do...

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.

All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder—either no ch...

We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the ...

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

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something ha...

The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first ink...

The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant f...

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

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor wou...

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!"Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined.

I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I ca...

Not having ice cream,” she proclaimed, “is the culmination of all disasters!

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of...

It’s just that I coulda swore you had sung me a love song back there and that you meant it but I gue...

You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; yo...

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded...

So be careful when you bend over.

darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our da...