Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Kennedy

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

Anne Fortier

Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.

Chuck Palahniuk

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

Amos Oz

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

Anne Rice

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

Anne Rice

Get thee behind me, tragedy.

Andrew Solomon

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

Andrew Solomon

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

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.

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Donald Trump

Every time there's a tragedy, everything goes up.

Dave Grohl

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.

Claude Monet

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

Dan Quayle

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

Cyril Tourneur

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

David Platt

God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

David Platt

The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.

Dan Brown

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.

The real tragedy is for Billy, not for the team,

We see this tragedy not getting better each day, but getting worse each day.

There have been 500 years of tragedy that we are still trying to live through and get over,

George Allen

Why not use this tragedy as a way to have some regulatory review?

Kurt Vonnegut

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

My tragedy is not going to be the last.

Charlton Heston

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

Carl Jung

The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

We have all been saddened by the tragedy still unfolding in the United States,

James Thurber

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

John Galsworthy

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

Gabrielle Roy

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

Edward Bond

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

Holly Black

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.