Tragedy Quotes

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The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are… — Deepak Chopra
The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on… — Kenneth Lay
Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that… — Paulo Coelho
All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world. — Paulo Coelho
The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life. — Paulo Coelho
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things… — Stanley Kubrick
A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. — Josephine Tey
There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For… — Fernando Pessoa
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Tragedy is the highest form of art. — Joyce Carol Oates
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes… — Richard M. Weaver
And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror… — Vasily Grossman
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share… — William Gaddis
The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No'....From… — Chaim Weizmann
Man and nature belong together in their created glory â€“ in their tragedy and in their salvation. — Paul Tillich
It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals… — Emma Goldman
In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die;… — James Weldon Johnson
I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong,… — Penelope Fitzgerald
The commission had to subpoena the F.A.A. for documents, had to subpoena NORAD for documents and they will never get the full story. That is… — Max Cleland
What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to… — Dmitri Shostakovich

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