Tragedy Quotes

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.

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.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

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.

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

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.

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

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

Humor is tragedy plus time.

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

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

This is a tragedy for the players. Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back.

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.

I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.

Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!

Although we are never glad when tragedy visits, we can be aware and seize the opportunity to do good in this world, even in the midst of tragedy.

All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later.

I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.

Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception.

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.

I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.

The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the centuries, but the new continent was to be the home and temple of the living God.

That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous.