Tragedies Quotes
246 Tragedies quotes by 205 unique authors
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To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great…
— Harold B. Lee
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Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious…
— Joan Lowery Nixon
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People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before…
— George Carlin
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There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally…
— Terry Pratchett
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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
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Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.
— Christopher Pike
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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.
— Virginia Woolf
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Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts.…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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None of us makes it through this life without problems and challenges—and sometimes tragedies and misfortunes. After all, in large part we are here to…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world…
— Neal Shusterman
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The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are…
— William Stafford
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One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his…
— Tana French
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One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the world’s people, those…
— Haki R. Madhubuti
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It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.
— Dorothy Parker
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I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.
— Judy Blundell
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Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary…
— Greg Graffin
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He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal…
— P.D. James
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