Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a… — Winston Churchill
Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to… — Tom Robbins
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask. — Edith Wharton
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. — William Shakespeare
As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths… — Jennifer Weiner
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a… — Pearl S. Buck
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy. — Alan Lightman
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. — Alan Lightman
The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation… — Nizar Qabbani
A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the… — Joel Salatin
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. — Oscar Wilde
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the… — Dean Koontz
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about… — Oscar Wilde
The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us… — E. M. Forster
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief. — Anne Carson
Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I… — William P. Young
The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. — Nicholas Sparks
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. — Oscar Wilde
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or… — Oscar Wilde
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. — Sandra Boynton
The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows… — Richard Yates
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the… — Dalai Lama
Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of… — Steven Pinker

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