Tragedy Quotes

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The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters. — Joanna Trollope
In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing… — Richard Sibbes
Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living… — Benjamin E. Mays
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life… — Yip Man
When we endure our own tragedies or trials, most of us develop some empathy and compassion for others who are suffering. The trick is to… — William Hudson O'Hanlon
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
No matter how difficult the trial... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by… — M. Russell Ballard
There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break… — Jackson Katz
Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a… — Brian Weiss
Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies; love for those… — Pope John Paul II
As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To… — Madeleine L'Engle
There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that. — Jeanette Winterson
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to… — Ezra Pound
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure heroism to be… — Geoffrey Dutton
Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the… — Aristotle
The first time I can remember being on a stage in front of an audience was one that came with triumph, adrenaline and a childlike… — Corey Taylor
It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or… — Rupert Brooke

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