Tragedy Quotes

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling.

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.

The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.

It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.

I think it's a tragedy that our schools don't teach kids about money. I think it's a tragedy that it has to come to an emergency before we evolve.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

Tragedies happen, accidents happen.

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes.

To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.