Tragedies Quotes · Page 5

Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it.”

— Joan D. Vinge

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else…

— Barack Obama

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain people and insist that they descend.

— Anonymous

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

— Gwen Stefani

“If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each others’ tragedies.”

— Neil Gaiman

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that theyhurt us by their crude violence,…

— Anonymous

One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting every effort into the foundation of their marriage. My grandmother told…

— Kay Robertson

We've all had our tragedies in life to deal with, it is up to us to become a stronger person for it,…

— Nishan Panwar

“Tragedies don’t kill you, she decided, “it’s the messes. I can’t stand messes. I’m not being a smart-cracker. You know I’m not…

— Marion Meade

I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about…

— Eva Mendes

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the…

— Charles Bukowski

The only thing that gets reported are the tragedies. But it rarely gets reported when somebody actually uses their Second Amendment right…

— Steve Scalise

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life.…

— Hrithik Roshan

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

— Oscar Wilde

“Comedy was invented to make people forget, That the plays of our lives were originally written as tragedies.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from…

— James Bovard

The trend the world over is comedy. People have enough tragedies in their lives.

— Priyadarshan

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There are parts of my life that are mine, my secrets, my hopes and dreams, my hurts and tragedies.

— Anonymous

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

— Simone Weil

Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA.

— Piyush Goyal

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

— Oscar Wilde

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

— George Bernard Shaw

“No tragedies here, Roar. This world will make you a victim every chance it gets. Don't let it.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Barack Obama

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

— Andrew Solomon

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

— Robert Byron

“Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.”

— Bryant McGill

“Life is not without its tragedies, but neither is it without its points of radiance.”

— Terry Helwig

“If you do not know the horrors and the tragedies of life, you can be sure that you know nothing!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.

— Judy Blundell

“Love can be a very frightening thing.’ ‘That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”

— Agatha Christie

All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.

— Katharine Kerr

“The claim 'I was only following orders' has been used to justify too many tragedies in our history.”

— Star Trek

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

— Lord Byron

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

— Hannah Whitall Smith