Tragedy Quotes - page 31

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together. (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have died - and that is a tragedy - I still believe that it was the right thing to do. View quote
Hazel Blears
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone. View quote
Alan Lightman
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. View quote
Joan Didion
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. View quote
David Mamet
All that you write confirms the grave condition of the world in this black age of ours. Again and again the best representatives of humanity must suffer through the tragedy of an age-old battle of all that is progressive and vital against the outworn and deadening concepts with which the consciousness of the majority is filled. As we see, this battle has already taken on a planetary scope, and is carried on in all realms and in all fields of life; yet the adherents of Light and progress are multiplying, and each new idea or discovery is more readily recognized then at those times when because of ignorance the discoveries most essential for humanity were postponed, sometimes for hundreds of years. View quote
Helena Roerich
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro. View quote
Dean Koontz
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities. View quote
James Baldwin
But beyond the personal tragedy, the terrible agony of Othello, the irretrievability of his world, the complete destruction of all his trusted and sacred values - all these suggest the shattering of a universe. View quote
Paul Robeson
Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up? View quote
Anna Deavere Smith
It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare. (Claude Monet)
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46. View quote
Alvin Toffler
I can remember being young enough, long ago, to believe that in Tennessee Williams the giant themes of Greek tragedy had returned, all hung about with Magnolias. Ignorance of Greek tragedy helped in this view. View quote
Clive James
Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been. View quote
Abba Eban
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. View quote
Abba Eban
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. View quote
Oscar Wilde
In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again. View quote
Alan Alda
Anyone's demise or vanishment is in some small way tragic but the word "tragedy" requires greater measure for its use. ... Van' s great mind now gone. Tragedy. View quote
Harlan Ellison
All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained. View quote
John Banville
And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another. View quote
Vasily Grossman
I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev. (Tariq Ali)
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. View quote
Steve Coogan
If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry. View quote
John Philips
I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. View quote
Sam Ervin
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers. View quote
Stafford Cripps