Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Fortier

Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.

Chuck Palahniuk

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

Douglas Kennedy

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

Donald Trump

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

Amos Oz

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

Anne Rice

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

Anne Rice

Get thee behind me, tragedy.

Andrew Solomon

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

Andrew Solomon

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Edward Abbey

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

Aristotle

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Charles Peguy

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

It was just not a pretty scene, ... It's just a tragedy for our community.

We see this tragedy not getting better each day, but getting worse each day.

Claude Monet

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

Dan Quayle

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

Cyril Tourneur

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

There have been 500 years of tragedy that we are still trying to live through and get over,

David Platt

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

David Platt

The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.

Dan Brown

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.

George Allen

Why not use this tragedy as a way to have some regulatory review?

The real tragedy is for Billy, not for the team,

Kurt Vonnegut

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

Marvin J. Ashton

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

Nicholas Sparks

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.

Irvin D. Yalom

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

I. F. Stone

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

J. K. Rowling

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.

Nelson Mandela

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?