Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

The greatest tragedy in life is not death. The greatest tragedy is to be alive and not know why — Simon T. Bailey
We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the… — Vanessa Redgrave
It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but… — Boethius
I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those… — Grover Norquist
Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand… — Willy Brandt
We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins in heaven, as… — Mahmoud Darwish
I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles… — Tony Blair
If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility… — Isaiah Berlin
If you don’t learn how to cry, you cannot be a good Christian. When they posed this question to us – why children suffer, why… — Pope Francis
This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers… — Leonard Cohen
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather… — Jean Baudrillard
I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in… — Miriam Makeba
This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path… — Phyllis Bottome
The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints. — PLO Lumumba
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity… — Shirley Hazzard
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of… — Kenny Smith
The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about… — Shirley Hazzard
One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Why all of these broken homes? What happens to marriages that begin with sincere love and a desire to be loyal and faithful and true… — Gordon B. Hinckley
For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to… — Elizabeth von Arnim
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. — Walter Scott
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim. — Benjamin E. Mays
Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't?… — Ronald Reagan
The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are not fed by… — Martha C. Nussbaum

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