Tragedy Quotes · Page 28

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How does the world even keep going with so much pain and tragedy everywhere?”

— Paula Stokes

I think it's in a way my tragedy that people don't see me for the serious roles I have played.

— Deepti Naval

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

— D. H. Lawrence

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

— Alan Lightman

“In the face of immense tragedy—yet again—unexpected beauty.”

— Sara Baume

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”

— Anonymous

“Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props.”

— Lindsey Leavitt

“And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have…

— Sy Montgomery

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror…

— Rita Mae Brown

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

— D. H. Lawrence

“We are only human, and the Gods have fashioned us for love. This is our greatest glory and our greatest tragedy.”

— George R.R. Martin

You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was…

— Alicia Witt

“...it struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.”

— Virginia Woolf

I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.

— Robert Gottlieb

We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living…

— Salman Rushdie

Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible…

— Peter Drucker

“My tragedy is no peculiar. It is as ordinary as a street dog. I struggle and cope with my wants, my needs,my…

— Vandana Yadav

“TEIRESIAS: You have your eyes but see not where you are in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with.…

— Sophocles

I'm thinking of how unexpected and yet oddly preordained life can be. Events are upon you in an instant, unforseen and without…

— Rob Lowe

I'm not making fun of it because I want to make fun of it. I'm making fun of it so I feel…

— Pete Davidson

Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The main thing we should be focused on is the strategy to destroy ISIS. And I laid out a plan that the…

— Jeb Bush

It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can…

— John Green

I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human…

— Ai Weiwei

I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA…

— Al Gore

From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.…

— Winston Churchill

“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like…

— David Grossman

Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents,…

— Barack Obama

“Francis stared down at the Duchess of York's letter. He swallowed, then read aloud in a husky voice, "It was showed by…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He's this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at…

— Michael Thomas Ford

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

— James Thurber

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

— Leon Bloy

“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”

— William Shakespeare

“I realize now that tragedy spares no one; it just courts each of us differently.”

— Gwendolyn M. Plano

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

— Angela Carter

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

— Edward Abbey

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

— Robert Kennedy

I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

— Farooq Abdullah