Tragedy Quotes - Page 29

Tragedy is the highest form of art.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

A lot of issues need to be swept under the carpet---and poof, along comes SARS. Whether or not its appearance was coordinated, up front, to coincide with these scandals and tragedies in Iraq, one thing is for sure. SARS has been used as a smokescreen to keep the global public diverted and in fear.

I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him - that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.

Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning.

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.

Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

Vaccines [measles] have been proven to be safe, and what happens if you don't take vaccines is children get measles and die. So the anti-vaccine crowd has, you know, kept measles around in a way that - you know, it's a tragedy, because so much is done to make sure these things are safe.

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.