Tragedy Quotes

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

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

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

A lot of you cared, just not enough.

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to make it even worse. So, it's basically highway robbery, and I think it's a tragedy.

The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.

Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

Ill never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy.

Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.

The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.