Tragedy Quotes - Page 6

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.

It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of being tired. It doesn't matter what age you are. But if our hearts get opened and released - well, that's what theater can do, and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful when that happens.

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.