Tragedy Quotes

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The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to… — Benjamin E. Mays
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus. — Robert Breault
Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy. — Charlie Munger
Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after… — Mark Twain
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played… — Winston Churchill
If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice… — Sid Caesar
The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and… — Francis Collins
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. — Nathaniel Philbrick
To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it,… — Bobby Ghosh
In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film… — Emmanuel Jal
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room. — Anne-Marie Duff
The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of… — Joanne Woodward
Tragedy, loss, and hurt often arrive unanticipated. How we react when we are surprised will tell our families whether what we have taught and testified… — Henry B. Eyring
I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy. — Roberto Benigni
Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody. — Mike Birbiglia
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our… — Benjamin E. Mays
I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune, ecstasy, that kind… — Jonathan Raymond
The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking… — Wil S. Hylton
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by… — Dalai Lama
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent. — Larry MacPhail

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