Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative… — Idries Shah
My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life. — Michael Sheen
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. — Adam Smith
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness… — Anna Deavere Smith
Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners. — Arthur Smith
As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool. — Matt Smith
My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and… — Patti Smith
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. — Joseph Stalin
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. — Sting
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. — Tom Stoppard
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books… — Ellen Tauscher
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. — Henry David Thoreau
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain… — Ted Turner
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. — Rufus Wainwright
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around.… — Christopher Walken
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. — Horace Walpole
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the… — Horace Walpole
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and… — Steven Weinberg
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. — Elwyn Brooks White
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't… — Elie Wiesel
The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is… — Olivia Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. — Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. — Oscar Wilde

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