Tragedy Quotes - Page 13

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

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

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.

The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.

The real tragedy is that we're all human beings, and human beings have a sense of dignity. Any domination by one human over another leads to a loss of some part of his dignity. Is one's dignity that big it can be crumbled away like that?

The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

It's amazing when tragedy strikes, how strong you find that you are, and I'd seen other people go through horrible things. And I just thought, "Wow, I would be a complete mess," and then suddenly when it happens, you realize you had more strength than you knew and it helps you to get through.

Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

It's difficult to follow your dream. It's a tragedy not to.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes.

Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?