Tragedy Quotes - Page 22

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.

Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.

I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them.

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.

Especially when you're faced with hard times, you need to remember that life is either tragedy or comedy. For me, that's what the magic is. Life has remarkable, surprising moments that get you through the hard times.

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Tragedy couldn't coexist in a world with one of Colin's smiles.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

A lot of you cared, just not enough.

Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way.

Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.