Tragedies Quotes

246 Tragedies quotes by 205 unique authors

That's one of the tragedies of this life-that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous. — Rudy Vallee
The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears. — Carmen Laforet
But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most… — Georgette Heyer
In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings — David Jeremiah
Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The… — Tariq Ali
A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas… — Robert McKee
According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with… — Rosemary Wells
I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So… — Garry McCarthy
Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains. — Edward Dowden
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to… — Andrew Solomon
One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all… — Pete du Pont
Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor. — Josh James
One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which… — Napoleon Hill
Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them. — Jacqueline Susann
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must… — Maxwell Maltz
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government. — James Bovard
Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. — Tom Perrotta
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos… — James Hillman
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute… — Oscar Wilde
The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and… — George Santayana
Without chemical slaughterhouses, without a systematic mass murder, the tragedy of the Jews is just one out of the numerous tragedies that befell the nations… — Unknown Author
Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting… — Robin Sharma
Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me. — Judith Guest
All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment. — Unknown Author

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