Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every… — Ernest Cline
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy — Alison Bechdel
In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great… — Mervyn Peake
Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile. — Khaled Hosseini
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take… — Karen Joy Fowler
If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger… — James Lee Burke
If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and… — Gavin Extence
The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other… — Susan Cain
..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy. — Richelle Mead
Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does… — Veronica Roth
If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so full of tragedy,… — Nalini Singh
Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The… — Oprah Winfrey
Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time. — Eustace Haydon
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. — Alfred North Whitehead
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. — Alfred North Whitehead
If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture… — Henri Matisse
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. — Irvin S. Cobb
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. — Thomas Carlyle
The tragedy of love is indifference. — W. Somerset Maugham
Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the… — Mark Twain
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into… — Hermann Hesse
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word. — Wynton Marsalis
In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said — Tony Benn
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and… — John C. Maxwell

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