Tragedy Quotes - Page 7

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.

If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world's greatest tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in them for little besides ourselves.

Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films.

You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.

Today, a young person that doesn't know themselves will totally be sold some other situation. Let's do your avatar. You know? And young people are going out, spending what little they have to try to buy themselves when they don't have themselves, or they feel like they don't have themselves. To me, that's like a damn pimp tragedy.