Tragedy Quotes - page 7

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. (David Remnick)
That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they'd recently added a Tragedy line. View quote
J.R. Ward
After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate. View quote
J.R. Ward
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking. View quote
James Patterson
Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one. View quote
Jane Smiley
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
It's easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy. View quote
Jonathan Maberry
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us. View quote
Douglas Kennedy
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal. View quote
Isabelle Huppert
Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization. View quote
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them. (Katharine Susannah Prichard)
There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect. View quote
Walter Hagen
What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own. View quote
Diane Arbus
It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything. View quote
Joyce Cary
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. View quote
Loren Eiseley
Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope. View quote
Elizabeth Bear
There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint. View quote
Leon Bloy
There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry. View quote
Bob Newhart
The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the caliphate, but of the Mohammedan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared. View quote
William Muir
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive. View quote
Judy Collins
We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined. (N. Scott Momaday)
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph. View quote
Tom Brokaw
Tragedy has been and will always be with us. Somewhere right now, evil people are planning evil things. All of us will do everything meaningful, everything we can do to prevent it, but each horrible act can't become an axe for opportunists to cleave the very Bill of Rights that binds us. America must stop this predictable pattern of reaction. When an isolated terrible event occurs, our phones ring demanding that the NRA explain the inexplicable. Why us? Because their story needs a villain. ... That is not our role in American society and we will not be forced to play it. ... Now, if you disagree that's your right, I respect that, but we will not relinquish it, or be silenced about it, or be told ‘do not come here, you are unwelcome in your own land.' View quote
Charlton Heston
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock. View quote
Allen Klein
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character. View quote
Andrew Coyle Bradley