Tragedy Quotes · Page 21

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

— Gerald R. Ford

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

— Joyce Meyer

“Love has turned to be a sad tragedy of my life even we both are alive”

— Seema Gupta

Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.

— Ari Graynor

A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.

— Jeff Fortenberry

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.

— Heywood Broun

Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

— Mark Shields

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

— Mark Batterson

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

— Frank Brady

“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

— Dale Carnegie

“That even in the face of the most shocking tragedy of my life, I could exert some control over its impact.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

I am always aware that I've had a special and privileged life, yet it has been balanced by tragedy as it has…

— Lee Radziwill

“You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.”

— Taylor Swift

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that…

— Daisaku Ikeda

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a…

— Oscar Wilde

All Americans should be deeply troubled by the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Falcon…

— Barack Obama

I think it's sort of the hypothetical point where communism and fascism meet. They love tragedy, and they love surface beauty. You…

— Emma Forrest

whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets…

— Bertolt Brecht

There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that…

— James Stephens

One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Papuan extinction is a systematised, structured, programmed, manufactured, engineered, monitored, funded, managed, organised, systematic, highly planned, bureaucratised, corporatised, institutionalised, civilisationalised, projected and…

— Yamin Kogoya

Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not…

— George Eliot

“Tell her I'm sorry I sold the diamond, eh?" Sammy said. "I broke my promise. When she disappeared in Alaska... ah, so…

— Rick Riordan

“The tragic sense of life is ironically not tragic at all, at least in the Big Picture. Living in such deep time,…

— Richard Rohr

There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's…

— Peter Moskos

Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies;…

— Pope John Paul II

We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend…

— Dalai Lama

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

— Pierre Corneille

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

— Charlie Chaplin

The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.

— Mark Batterson

“A person's destiny often ends before his death.”

— Milan Kundera

“She was so full of holes now, she was like a Swiss cheese.”

— Danielle Steel

“Love is an unpredictable thing. It is beauty and tragedy.”

— Heather Burch

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

— Nathan Fillion