Tragedies Quotes

246 Tragedies quotes by 205 unique authors

William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told… — Marchette Chute
One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts. — Benjamin Franklin
Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. — Andrew Coyle Bradley
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the… — Jim Rohn
When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get… — Vidal Sassoon
We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the… — Albert Camus
Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history of recorded music… — Kris Kristofferson
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations. — Franklin Graham
Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols-and earth represents reality, and reality represents frustrations,… — Virginia C. Andrews
The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love… — Kevin Nash
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over… — Stephen King
I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve… — James Nachtwey
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. — Martin Seligman
Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling… — James Nachtwey
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I… — Fernando Pessoa
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not… — Oscar Wilde
One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man. — Michael Gurian
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the… — H. L. Mencken
We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics. — Barack Obama
Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies… — Alan S. Kesselheim
Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people… — Andrew Shue
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing… — William Duncan Silkworth
Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it. — Marvin J. Ashton
You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what… — Aldous Huxley

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