Tragedy Quotes

“We learn from tragedy. Slowly.”

— Josephine Hart

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

— Dave Pelzer

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

— Salvador Dali

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

— Thomas Harris

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

— Shepard Smith

Magic likes a good tragedy, too.

— Adam Rex

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

— Tony Dorsett

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

— Robert Heilbroner

It would be a tragedy for democracy if dissent goes away.

— Mahesh Bhatt

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

— Jonathan Swift

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

— Artie Lange

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

— Eustace Haydon

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

— Jeff Bridges

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

— Michael C. Hall

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we…

— Henri Nouwen

“So here at last were the first lines of the story that was later to come clear, a story of spite and…

— Mary Stewart

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and…

— Patti Smith

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though…

— Gilbert Adair

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

— Anais Nin

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

— Franklin Graham

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of…

— Isak Dinesen

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous…

— Marian Seldes

There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If…

— John Powell

I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose,…

— Charlie Albright

Showing what it feels like and the emotional journey of trying to appeal to the humanity of someone who's also trapped in…

— Julio Torres

Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just…

— Robert Webb

There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together…

— Auberon Waugh

I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing…

— Lucy Grealy

At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To…

— Anonymous

Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch…

— Marlene Dietrich

Having studied biology really helped me a lot because I quickly understand how biological systems work, and how they fail, and the…

— Wangari Maathai

You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy;…

— Aldous Huxley

Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity…

— Henri Nouwen

I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to…

— Harlan Coben

The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them,…

— James Davison Hunter

One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old…

— Osamu Dazai

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool…

— Megan Karasch