Tragedy Quotes · Page 66

“But life is made of happiness and tragedy in equal proportions, and we will never change that.”

— Jennifer Worth

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and…

— Jennifer Stone

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?

— Henry Blackaby

Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of…

— Amber Rudd

“Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.”

— Edward Morris

“I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a…

— Nikki Rowe

“They were holding their weapons but could not risk opening a window or exiting the vehicle to return fire. Then they saw…

— Jeffrey S. Stephens

“Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life.”

— Charles D'Ambrosio

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

God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy.…

— Anonymous

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor…

— Eric Gill

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone;…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“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

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

— Peter Drucker

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

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

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane…

— Werner Herzog

Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the…

— Bernard Lown

The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do.

— Martin Luther King III

“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

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

— Will Rogers

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first…

— Karl Marx

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

— Hannah Whitall Smith

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

“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

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

Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch '21 Grams.' I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with…

— Lykke Li

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here…

— Thomas Kyd

Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is…

— Jane Goodall

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see

— Bob Seger

Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

— Lady Margaret Sackville

“Mourning suits us Spanish women. Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe we are bred for the part.”

— Judith Ortiz Cofer

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in…

— Benjamin E. Mays

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness.

— Ronnie Corbett

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

— Maxwell Anderson

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

— Jacob Bronowski