Tragedy Quotes · Page 106

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing…

— Dan Brown

Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at…

— William Butler Yeats

The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.

— Bud Grant

I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from…

— Corra May Harris

It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are…

— Adam Grant

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

— Charlie Chaplin

“She has become someone that I am bound to forget her.”

— J. Limbu

A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but…

— Khalil Gibran

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

— Joseph Stowell

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it…

— Anthony de Mello

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

— Orson Scott Card

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which…

— Jack Schwartz

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise…

— Ezra Pound

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

— Angela Carter

I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think…

— Barack Obama

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

— Anonymous

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

— Charles Jencks

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

— Leon Bloy

I was so tired of her getting upset for no reason. The way she would get sulky and make references to the…

— John Green

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult…

— Joseph Campbell

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness…

— George W. Bush

“It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— Michael C. Hall

My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a…

— Ben Sasse

What do you think this very difficult situation will push? Especially in the hearts of those who are facing the starvation, facing…

— Yasser Arafat