Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a… — Ani DiFranco
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees… — Emily Dickinson
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one… — Joan Didion
Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy. — Mike Ditka
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. — Roger Ebert
I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could… — Umberto Eco
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. — Havelock Ellis
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages. — Paul Engle
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. — Nora Ephron
Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened… — Brett Favre
There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy. — Nathan Fillion
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids… — Jonathan Safran Foer
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect. — Walter Hagen
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him… — Vaclav Havel
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to… — Helen Hayes
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from… — Lillian Hellman
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not… — Werner Herzog
I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that… — Paris Hilton
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor. — Christopher Hitchens
Tragedy is a literary concept. — David Hockney
Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did. — Jane D. Hull
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. — Aldous Huxley

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