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The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive)
— Jonathan Lethem
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
— Larry MacPhail
Tragedy is an imitation not just of a complete action, but of events that evoke pity and fear.
— Aristotle.
The tragedy of mediocrity is that even mediocre people shake their heads and mull over how standard are falling.- Serious Men — Manu Joseph
That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.
— Charles Coburn
Virtue is knowledge; man sins only from ignorance; he who is virtuous is happy. In these three basic forms of optimism lies the death of tragedy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.
— Reinhard Bonnke
The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn't understand. And it ended in tragedy.
— Jeff MacNelly
His thoughts are unfathomable & her emotions are all over the place. Oh! The tragedy of Love.
— Ankita Singhal
Now we don't celebrate divorce, of course. But we see it as a personal tragedy, not as a scandal in our witness to the gospel.
— Russell D. Moore
I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'.
— George Chuvalo
Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.
— Bryant McGill
These are a few of my favorite things.
— Oscar Hammerstein II
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
— Joni Mitchell
Misunderstanding and distrust - the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.
— Carmen DeSousa
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
— Jeannette Walls
Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.
— Robin Roberts
The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.
— Joanne Woodward
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.
— James Lee Burke
Nazis were raiding French homes, looking for Jewish children. The tragedy of the year before was that Jean Moulin, one of the famed
— Danielle Steel
We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!
— David Trumble
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
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
— Jonathan Nolan
To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.
— William Easterly
But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.
— Leila Sales
Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.
— Marianne Williamson
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
— Edith Hamilton
In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
— Jacky Ickx
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
— W.B.Yeats
Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth
— Winston Churchill
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
— Joe Paterno
In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.
— Paul Dano
History is more of a tragedy than it is a morality tale.
— Christopher Hitchens
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions" -Agatha Swanburne
— Maryrose Wood
It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser, though he has lost and I think that is the lesson of tragedy.
— Alain De Botton
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
— Bernard Malamud
Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life.
— Lindsey Davis
Unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe full of direst cruelty That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Macbeth
— William Shakespeare
Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.
— Kathleen Dowling Singh
Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.
— Anne Fortier
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
— Anne Carson
All hero's are born out of the embers that linger after the fire of great tragedy. Children of Ankh series — Kim Cormack
There was something magnificent in dire tragedy, in the terror of it, in the necessity which it laid upon everybody to behave nobly and efficiently.
— Arnold Bennett
We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
— Dean Koontz
When citizens of a country or nation believe in superstitions or dogma, they will inevitably suffer from tremendous misery or tragedy.
— Debasish Mridha
That is the tragedy of everyday life: when you are in it, you can never see your self clearly.
— Jeff VanderMeer
All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to handle it.
— Philip Kerr
I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.
— Andrew Sarris
God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.
— Joseph Stowell
And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.
— Vasily Grossman
In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.
— Agatha Christie
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
— Mortimer J. Adler
Perhaps it is both the tragedy of life and the blessing of life that most moments only happen once.
— Glenn Haybittle
The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Like the roller coaster of life ... novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.
— Carmen DeSousa
A gripper of a read ... Silence revives the cliff's-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory's death.
— Bruce Barcott
All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.
— Paulo Coelho
She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.
— Ann Brashares
Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?
— Henry Blackaby
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
— Wislawa Szymborska
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
— Loren Eiseley
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
— Jeff Bridges
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
— Terri Garey
In Derry such forgetting of tragedy and disaster was almost an art, as Bill Denbrough would come to discover in the course of time.
— Stephen King
Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.
— Neale Donald Walsch
It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind.
— Marcel Proust
That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.
— Charles Tart
If she's gonna love again, it won't be an eternity but a hard, fast conflagration that leaves everyone else in the embers.
— Lindsay Detwiler
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them - that is the tragedy of life.
— Henry Miller
