Tragedies Quotes

246 Tragedies quotes by 205 unique authors

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this… — Bobby Jindal
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. — Paul Klee
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives. — Barbara Kruger
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. — Jessica Lange
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative… — Idries Shah
As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool. — Matt Smith
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. — Oscar Wilde
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde
You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. — Annie Proulx
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are… — Rebecca Solnit
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people… — Neil Gaiman
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a… — Arthur C. Clarke
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it… — Simone de Beauvoir
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes… — Madeleine L'Engle
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about… — Oscar Wilde
Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I… — William P. Young
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. — Sandra Boynton
Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of… — Steven Pinker

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