Tragedy Quotes

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

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.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

I am just at tragedy right now.

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.

I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

There is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.

Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.

For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.