Great Tragedy Quotes
Collection of top 54 famous quotes about Great Tragedy
Great Tragedy Quotes & Sayings
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The great tragedy of our lives seems to be that we are smart enough to ask the questions of meaning but too dumb to really figure it out.
— Donald Miller
To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?
— May Sarton
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
— Austin O'Malley
The essence of Macbeth is seeing a great and intelligent man succumb to the forces of darkness. What gives the tragedy
— William Shakespeare
The great tragedy of segregation isn't so much that we see less of each other but that in separating from each other we see less of God.
— Tullian Tchividjian
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.
— Leo Tolstoy
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
— D.H. Lawrence
There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
— Graham T. Allison
Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.
— Karen White
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
— Jacques Barzun
I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.
— D.H. Lawrence
What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.
— Dennis Hastert
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.
— Jack Abramoff
It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.
— Jim Gerlach
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.
— Leon Bloy
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
— Thomas Sowell
You're like great Shakespearean tragedy.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.
— Chris Womersley
Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.
— Elbert Hubbard
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I make art when I can't gather the words to say.
— Nikki Rowe
There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
— Loren Eiseley
If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
— Bobby Fischer
In spite of all the tragedy and cruelty, all humans have a kind heart, great spirit, and an insatiable love for the humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.
— Corliss Lamont
To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.
— Charles Colson
You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy.
— Margaret Rutherford
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.
— Nicolas Chamfort
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.
— Philip K. Dick
Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom ... but only if you plant the seeds.
— Steve Maraboli
Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.
— Robert Heilbroner
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
— Indira Gandhi
All hero's are born out of the embers that linger after the fire of great tragedy. Children of Ankh series — Kim Cormack
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
— W. Somerset Maugham