Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to… — George Carlin
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light. — Oscar Wilde
The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that… — Rudolfo Anaya
Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of… — Diane Duane
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and… — W. Somerset Maugham
A lot of you cared, just not enough. — Jay Asher
People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before… — George Carlin
I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all… — Jodi Picoult
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second,… — Elie Wiesel
There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies… — Fernando Pessoa
Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy — Kay Redfield Jamison
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. — Nora Roberts
None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another.… — Brennan Manning
We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy. — William Butler Yeats
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular… — Mortimer Adler
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause… — Anthony de Mello
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally… — Terry Pratchett
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy. — Richard Yates
There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the… — Joanna Russ
A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent… — Timothy Keller
The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture… — Seth Godin
He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the… — Salman Rushdie

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