Tragedy Quotes - page 5

A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary. (Horace Walpole)
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature. View quote
Arnold Bennett
...The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection. View quote
Morton Feldman
Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounded like a quiet tragedy. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting. View quote
George Orwell
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Short on glamour and long on tragedy. View quote
Quentin Reynolds
And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy. View quote
George Chapman
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this. (Woodrow Wilson)
I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame. View quote
Tony Abbott
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Life is a tragedy full of joy. View quote
Bernard Malamud
We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.... View quote
William Faulkner
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. View quote
William Butler Yeats
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon with every day because I know that if I ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other; and to that extent, I can accept myself. View quote
James Nachtwey
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune-what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate. View quote
Susanne Langer
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise. (Albert Schweitzer)
The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change. View quote
Len Deighton
But we survived, didn't we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it's a tragedy. View quote
Garth Nix
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. View quote
Havelock Ellis
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. View quote
Salvador Dalí