Tragedy Quotes

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

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

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is carried on. But, it is wearing you out.That is why I say the tragedy that is facing mankind is not AIDS or cancer, but Alzthiemer's disease.

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

You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies.

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.

The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.

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.

It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.