Tragedy Quotes - Page 25

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's one of those tragedies that we always see in riot situations, where the only thing that they can lash out against is the stuff that's right there in their own communities. They destroy the very things that help them survive in their own community. There is a level of futility in that.

The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.

It's true that a human being cannot control what happens to him. However, what we can control is how we respond to what happens to us, what we do with what happens to us. Even if the range of choice is minimal, there is always a choice. From that point of view, destiny is our battlefield. It's not a tragedy; it is what we do with it.

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

I guess some of us are just born with Tragedy in our blood

Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated people movers, like those in downtown Miami, are moving people from rail stations to their final destinations. But a new concept, PRT, may help revolutionize urban transportation, providing a cost-effective way to get people from train stations to where they need to go.

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the best of the time we have. And go down shooting, naturally.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

The institutions at the centre of capitalism are bigger than they've ever been, the pay is much greater, the ability of society to get its arms around it is much less. The political clout of the financial class is unbelievable. I'd say the story is darker than when I was there. When I was there it felt like a comedy - and now it feels more like a tragedy.

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.