Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy — Peter Piot
We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies. — Rod Blagojevich
The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy. — Jeff MacNelly
I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal. — John Jackson Miller
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain. — Criss Jami
As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration… — Criss Jami
Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted… — August Strindberg
The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt,… — William Hazlitt
Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. — Indira Gandhi
All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour,… — Stephen Leacock
While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm. — Rita Mae Brown
If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have… — Pope Francis
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. — Benjamin Franklin
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. — Paul Getty
I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees… — Robin Gibb
I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to… — Stephen Jay Gould
In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.'… — Lady Gregory
I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more. — Dave Grohl
My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and… — Judy Collins
There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies. — Harry Connick, Jr.
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. — Steve Coogan
The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic. — Pierre Corneille
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response,… — Norman Cousins

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