Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

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 – 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
The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might be filled with… — Truman G. Madsen
The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart… — Joseph J. Romm
You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers.… — Marc Chagall
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive. — Lee Strobel
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose. — Rick Warren
Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of… — William Shakespeare
I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a… — Diane von Furstenberg
It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far… — Bob Geldof
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times… — Marlene Dietrich
Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns. — Tara Brach
The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that… — Thomas Carlyle
It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the… — Henry Steele Commager
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint. — Leon Bloy
Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint. — Charles Peguy
Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime. — Tony Benn

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