Tragedy Quotes

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

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.

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.

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.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready.

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

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.