Tragedy Quotes - page 2

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts. (Shirley Hazzard)
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless... View quote
Oscar Wilde
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world. View quote
George Steiner
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. View quote
Erma Bombeck
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one. View quote
André Gide
The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic. View quote
Pierre Corneille
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. View quote
Edith Hamilton
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. View quote
Arthur Miller
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. View quote
Karl Marx
History always repeats itself twice first time as tragedy, second time as farce. View quote
Karl Marx
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. View quote
Germaine Greer
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. View quote
Norman Cousins
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Herein lies the tragedy of the age not that men are poor all men know something of poverty not that men are wicked who is good Not that men are ignorant what is truth Nay, but that men know so little of men. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. (Sholem Aleichem)
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet. View quote
Ann Druyan
Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception. View quote
Tariq Ali
Death is always and under all circumtances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. View quote
Clarence Darrow