Tragedy Quotes

Tragedy Quote of the day

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

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.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

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

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

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

You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies.

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

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.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.

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.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.

There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy.

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

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.

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.