Tragedy Quotes · Page 101

“Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.”

— Alessandra Torre

I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would…

— Ryan Leaf

“If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would…

— Rachel Van Dyken

Get thee behind me, tragedy.

— Anne Rice

I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

— Francine Pascal

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

— Agatha Christie

Vaccines [measles] have been proven to be safe, and what happens if you don't take vaccines is children get measles and die.…

— David Oshinsky

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Seeing the steady increases in those with a visible difference or disfigurement experiencing hate crimes is frightening. We can't wait for a…

— Adam Pearson

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in…

— Rita Mae Brown

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author…

— Tony Campolo

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

— Howard Barker

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

— Edith Wharton

It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international…

— Bob Geldof

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

— Patti Page

If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite…

— Amir Taheri

The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

At some level, Trump is more radical than the NRA. In the wake of Orlando, he was calling on people to walk…

— Chris Murphy

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

— Jacques Attali

My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

— Michael Sheen

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.”

— Chris Crutcher

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end…

— Lillian Hellman

Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

— Mason Cooley