Tragedy Quotes

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What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports! — Publilius Syrus
Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there.… — Diana Abu-Jaber
What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with our little or… — Valzhyna Mort
We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated… — Peter Calthorpe
Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall? — Henry Blackaby
Life is a tragedy full of joy. — Bernard Malamud
What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks
Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that… — Andrea Yates
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing… — Aristotle
It is with enormous distress that France has just learned of the monstrous attacks there is no other word for it that have just struck… — Jacques Chirac
[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just as… — Donald Trump
This terrible tragedy.... the entire international community should unite in the struggle against terrorism this is a blatant challenge to humanity. — Vladimir Putin
France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States.... In these terrible circumstances, all French people stand… — Jacques Chirac
That does not mean we won't experience the tragedy of the loss of some American lives. We will have an opportunity to instill a democracy… — John McCain
We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get… — Rob Brezsny
Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy. — Unknown Author
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul. — William Butler Yeats
Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. — Lady Margaret Sackville
Violence against women is not random or anonymous. In West Virginia, 88 percent of sexual-assault victims already know their attacker. In my hometown, Alicia McCormick,… — Shelley Moore Capito

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