Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the… — Joyce Maynard
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals… — Benjamin E. Mays
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. — Bryant H. McGill
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a… — H. L. Mencken
We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy. — Joyce Meyer
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say… — Arthur Miller
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another… — Henry Miller
Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits. — Kylie Minogue
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their… — Joni Mitchell
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though… — John Muir
It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot… — Dee Dee Myers
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on… — Anais Nin
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read… — Joyce Carol Oates
Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting… — Joyce Carol Oates
People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning… — Yoko Ono
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy… — George Orwell
After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and… — George Pataki
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. — Joe Paterno
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. — Dan Quayle
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy. — Jean Racine
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it… — Gilda Radner
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The… — David Remnick
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. — Will Rogers
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. — Albert Schweitzer

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