Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that… — Paulo Coelho
None of us makes it through this life without problems and challenges—and sometimes tragedies and misfortunes. After all, in large part we are here to… — Thomas S. Monson
Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy. — Anne Fortier
Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world… — Neal Shusterman
The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose. — Myles Munroe
That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black… — Kathryn Stockett
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. — Niccolo Machiavelli
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity. — Miguel de Unamuno
I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen… — Roland Merullo
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are… — William Stafford
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. — Jeannette Walls
And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now. — Taylor Swift
We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world. — Karl Lagerfeld
Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard? — Patrick Ness
When one person dies, it's a tragedy, but when a million people die, it's a statistic. — Joseph Stalin
A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may… — Tara Brach
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased… — W. Somerset Maugham
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That… — Anais Nin
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this. — Woodrow Wilson
Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy. — George R. R. Martin
One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his… — Tana French

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