Great Tragedy Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others… — George W. Bush
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the… — Douglas MacArthur
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a… — Liza Minnelli
If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game. — Bobby Fischer
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking… — Lucy Grealy
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the onlyÂ great tragedyÂ inÂ life, is not to become a saint. — Leon Bloy
Death is a great tragedyâ€¦a profound lossâ€¦I donâ€™t accept itâ€¦I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death. — Ray Kurzweil
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history, — Antonio Guterres
It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one. — Jim Gerlach
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations:… — Ann Druyan
This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved… — Nelson Mandela
To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love. — Simone de Beauvoir
The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are not fed by… — Martha C. Nussbaum
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life… — Rebecca Harding Davis
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal. — Jack Abramoff
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. — W. Somerset Maugham
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or… — George R. R. Martin

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