Tragedy Quotes

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

— Shawn Crahan

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

— Frida Kahlo

I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.

— Kanye West

“Save me from the things that I love.”

— J. Limbu

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

— Benjamin E. Mays

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

— Virginia Woolf

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

— Paul Krugman

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

We will never be defined by tragedy but, instead, by how we respond to it.

— Kevin Brady

“Every tragedy that happens in the world happens to my mother,”

— Gillian Flynn

Every broken heart has one time or another asked, What is important to me now?

— Shannon L. Alder

“On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.”

— Peter Høeg

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

— Andrew Sarris

Human life is a fine blend of comedy and tragedy.

— Sreenadh

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts…

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

— Barbara Tuchman

I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and…

— Gary Larson

My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.

— Barbara Mikulski

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to…

— John C. Maxwell

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is…

— Neal A. Maxwell

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

— Marvin Sapp

“Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.”

— Daniel Prokop

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try…

— Graham Nash

I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it…

— Jodi Picoult

“Rick: "...and we all need tragedy in our lives.” Marley: “Why do you think we need tragedy?” Rick: “Because it makes us…

— M.K. Schiller

Disturbingly, the First Amendment, along with the Fourth Amendment - protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring warrants - have been…

— Chelsea Manning

It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be…

— Emmet Fox

Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film…

— Janet Maslin

In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind…

— Slavoj Žižek

It would be a tragedy if the remarkable international coalition against terrorism, successfully marshalled in the aftermath of 11 September, were to…

— Charles Kennedy

I follow many tragedies around the world. At one point I [will] feel like I've accumulated an enormous amount of information, a…

— Alfredo Jaar

An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the…

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of…

— Richard Tarnas

Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So…

— Conan O'Brien

I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man…

— Oscar Arias

It is always a great honour to mention a truth which has not become widespread yet. One of these truths is that…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that…

— Al Gore

Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add…

— Elizabeth Gilbert