Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only… — Barack Obama
An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful,… — Timothy Foote
Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. — Martin Seligman
When tragedy strikes, no one is fully prepared to deal effectively with all the responsibilitie s, emotional trauma, and grief that begin to impact people.… — Billy Graham
History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are three sayings I live by, and one of them is 'The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.'… — Ken Hendricks
You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot… — Samuel Johnson
The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life. — Rudy Giuliani
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort
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
A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow. — Louise Hay
I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy. — Madeleine L'Engle
I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again. — Chuck Close
Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. — John Milton
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of… — Albert Claude
Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become. — Brennan Manning
My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy. — Ed Markey
In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was taken… — Paul Theroux
It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few. — Oscar Hammerstein II
So, the great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of… — Henry B. Eyring
The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what… — Daisaku Ikeda
This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved… — Nelson Mandela
Well, for me, it's the relationship between comedy and life - that's the edge I live on, and maybe it's my protection against looking at… — Harold Ramis
Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity… — Joseph Conrad

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