Tragedy Quotes · Page 39

Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.

— Christopher Pike

I play for those young kids with cancer or anybody who went through a tragedy in their life.

— James Conner

To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

The biggest tragedy we had early on was when Bon Scott died.

— Angus Young

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

— Jeanette Winterson

“God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.”

— Donald Miller

“God knows whatever comes your way, in any given circumstance.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

— Christopher Fry

There's so much tragedy in people that we see every day that we don't have to make anything up. We don't have…

— Eric Drooker

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played…

— Marie Dressler

“Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey--searching for Jesus.”

— W. Scott Lineberry

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.

— Jim Steranko

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

— Anonymous

Pebble Mill was packed with a lot of talent and a lot of really, really good stuff came out of Birmingham. It…

— Christopher Timothy

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of…

— Michael Gurian

The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to…

— Sylvia Plath

The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national…

— Chris Chocola

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high…

— Raymond Chandler

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded…

— James M Strock

In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of…

— Alice McDermott

I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to…

— Michael Sandel

There are huge pluses in Scottish archaeology that you simply don't get elsewhere. Partly that's to do with the tragedy of the…

— Tony Robinson

I like doing everything - theater and film, radio and TV, comedy and tragedy. I love it all. And I've never really…

— Alfred Molina

We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves…

— Philip Kitcher

“In the end when God does speak, it is not the pious friends who are commended. God tells then they have been…

— Peggy Haymes

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

“It made a romantic tale. The young rouge, cheating death, returning to his grieving lover. But in reality? Ashyn had always known…

— Kelly Armstrong

“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

I think the media has got into this Enquirer mentality. Years ago, legitimate press didn't really concern itself with sordid details of…

— Joan Jett

“The tragedy of being; we believe all things but doubt the truth.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

— Oscar Wilde

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

— Robert Bly

I want to show people you can overcome a tragedy.

— Jeff Bauman

Even in the face of tragedy, human beings need to find a way to laugh. It's normal. It's life.

— Jordan Gavaris

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

— Bud Grant

“God is well able to turn your tragedies into triumphs.”

— Jim George

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

— Howard Barker