Tragedy Quotes - Page 10

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

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

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

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.

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like its crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like its laughing. Nowadays, we would say, How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be the person in the photograph that was experiencing a tragedy or it could also be the spectator looking on from a safe distance.

The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.