Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. — Tom Perrotta
A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price… — Peter Lynch
If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally… — Viktor Schauberger
One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about.… — Oriana Fallaci
I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless. — Helen Keller
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches. — Henry David Thoreau
These are a few of my favorite things. — Oscar Hammerstein II
It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring of their life.… — Helen Keller
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. — William Dean Howells
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time. — Artie Lange
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay… — Sun Ra
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos… — James Hillman
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute… — Oscar Wilde
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. — Stephen Vizinczey
It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat… — Jean Anouilh
The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and… — George Santayana
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. — Antonin Artaud
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy. — Ai Weiwei
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate.… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our… — Angela Carter

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