Tragedy Quotes - Page 5

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.

The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

Life is a tragedy of nutrition

If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

When you go through tragedy, you can either let that destroy you and you become bitter and never let it go, or you can let it make you stronger and let it make you grow. And that's what I did. My lyrics are coming from a place that I want people to relate to and feel that they're not alone.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death. The greatest tragedy is to be alive and not know why

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.