Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

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
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

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