Tragedy Quotes - Page 16

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking the wherewithal to travel can't. There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him.

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

These are a few of my favorite things.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love every day. You never know when the tragedies of this world may visit your life.

God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?

My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 9/11 did.

I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

Sometimes it bothers me that people now only recognize me because of tragedy. But I've come to understand that people really care and worry for me. I feel I should say to every person I meet, 'I'm fine. Daria's fine. Life goes on.'

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.