Tragedies Quotes

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.