Tragedy Quotes

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is ...

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.""I suppose one could say th...

The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. Yo...

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth,...

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. ...

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious ...

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary....

Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; fo...

...this two-way hatred. I don’t understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn'...

Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what...

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even so...

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I ex...

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to sa...

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there ca...

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as norma...

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after ...

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility...

Humor is tragedy plus time.

...trust in God could impose an additional burden on good people slammed to their knees by some sens...

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

We wear the mask that grins and lies.It shades our cheeks and hides our eyes.This debt we pay to hum...

In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous s...

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and persona...

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

Your heart doesn't think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn't consider the relativity of tragedy when i...

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be...

Our word Tragedy comes from the Greek, tragos-ode: “The song of the goat.” Anybody who has ever hear...

No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, ...

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...