Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The… — Hypatia
Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear… — Daisaku Ikeda
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this… — Bobby Jindal
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. — Samuel Johnson
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture… — John F. Kennedy
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. — Robert Kennedy
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family,… — Ben Kingsley
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. — Henry A. Kissinger
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. — Paul Klee
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country… — Allen Klein
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills… — Jeffrey Kluger
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives. — Barbara Kruger
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. — Jessica Lange
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. — D. H. Lawrence
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. — D. H. Lawrence
Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh. — Vivien Leigh
In my life, I've dealt with tragedy. — Leona Lewis
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human… — Wangari Maathai
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly. — George MacDonald
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. — Karl Marx
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. — Karl Marx

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