Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy,… — Karl Marx
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So, as… — Henry A. Kissinger
If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom. — Mark Rothko
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t… — Bel Kaufman
Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire. — Theodore Dreiser
We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we… — Saul Bellow
Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail! — Napoleon Hill
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment,… — Darin Strauss
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with… — Emile M. Cioran
Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit… — Roberto Rossellini
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty,… — William A. Niskanen
We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden… — William George Jordan
When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not… — Philip Yancey
Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. — Robert Breault
Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence… — Sarah Palin
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became… — Maggie Gallagher
The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. — D. H. Lawrence
Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost. — Alex Gaskarth
Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional… — Sonja Lyubomirsky
It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage… — Unknown Author
What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports! — Publilius Syrus
Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there.… — Diana Abu-Jaber
What I love most about nature is how indifferent it is to us humans and human suffering. While we are here with our little or… — Valzhyna Mort
We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated… — Peter Calthorpe
Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall? — Henry Blackaby

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