Earth Quote by David Platt

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

— Dan Quayle

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

— Anthony de Mello

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is…

— Paulo Coelho

A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.

— Louise Hay

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

— Edith Hamilton

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their…

— Bernard Williams

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile…

— Norbert Wiener

We will never be defined by tragedy but, instead, by how we respond to it.

— Kevin Brady

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

— Patrick Marber

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of…

— Leo Tolstoy

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To…

— Isak Dinesen