Tragedy Quotes - Page 41

Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential

My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

I think whenever you go through something of that nature, you get to see who's really on your side and who's really there for you. That happened in my case. And it really let me understand that no matter how small of a decision you make, it's going to have a subsequent action or reaction, and something that started out very innocent turned into the tragedy that it was.

Every time there's a tragedy, everything goes up.

This is really a twin tragedy both for the people who were misled over there and for those of us who were misled over here.

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.

Tragedy alters everything.

Progressives must not portray all abortions as tragedies. . . Senator Hillary Clinton, in a 2005 speech commendable for setting forth a prochoice, pro-prevention, pro-family agenda, took the aspiration a step in the wrong direction when she called for policy changes so that abortion 'does not ever have to be exercised or only in very rare circumstances.

One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had a huge amount of energy.

Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.

God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

Tragedy is a literary concept.

Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.

A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.