Tragedy Quotes - page 6

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed ... History is a tale of efforts that failed, of aspirations that weren't realized... So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy. (Henry Kissinger)
A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar? View quote
Alan Ayckbourn
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. View quote
Mark Twain
Humor is tragedy plus time. View quote
Mark Twain
In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed. View quote
Barack Obama
Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple - the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something. View quote
Bert McCracken
Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. View quote
John Milton
What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
It's a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U. S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq's oil. View quote
Nelson Mandela
For the truly creative mind in any field is no more than this - a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create - to create - to create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of beauty and meaning his very breath is cut off from him. He must create. He must pour out creation. By some strange unknown pressing inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful. (Peter Drucker)
If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable! View quote
Viktor Schauberger
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur. View quote
Edward Bond
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. View quote
Tony Blair
The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy. View quote
Olivia Wilde
In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this. View quote
Per Petterson
The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart. View quote
Raymond E. Feist
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy. View quote
Richard Yates
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen. View quote
Philip K. Dick
What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Life is a tragedy of nutrition. (Arnold Ehret)
I couldn't remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn't put a book down, and that was a tragedy. View quote
Shannon Hale
My Akri says that tragedy and adversity are the stones we sharpen our swords against ao that we can fight new battles.- Simi. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Magic likes a good tragedy, too. View quote
Adam Rex
Tragedy alters everything. View quote
Diane Setterfield