Tragedy'd Quotes

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

Customers to whom he'd sold three dollars and six cents' worth of gas the night of the Holcomb tragedy. — Truman Capote

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy. — Christopher Paul Curtis

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us. — P.D. James

For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar. — R.C. Sproul

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters. — Joanna Trollope

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens? — Arthur Miller

People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it. — Fred D'Aguiar

If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it. — D.R. Silva

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

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once. — Euripides

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

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery. — D.H. Lawrence

The tragedy of the world today is that it starts too near to its problems. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

She was seeing the other side of the tragedy, the world that lived, for now, only in the hopeful hearts of those who, though not seeing, saw. — S.D. Smith

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. — D.H. Lawrence

Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones. — Lydia Leonard

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry. — John Phillips

There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d'etats on the state of irrational optimism — Dean Cavanagh

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did. — Jane D. Hull

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it. — Euripides

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. — Abraham Maslow

Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper. — Kathleen Dowling Singh

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last. — P.D. James

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. — Dean Koontz

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

Into every life both tragedy and triumph can fall, and we must learn to meet both with equal serenity. — Aleksandra Layland

A healing heart has no time frame. — Nikki Rowe

Life always begins with triumph but tends to end with tragedy. — Debasish Mridha

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help. — Harold S. Kushner

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. — Tom Perrotta

In childbirth grief begins. — Euripides

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

Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances. — Richelle E. Goodrich

But it would be a tragedy to get the right president, the right Congress, and the wrong Christ. — Russell D. Moore

The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love. — D.R. Silva

For maybe the first time he could remember, he was very seriously thinking about how to best kill someone he'd never even seen. — Yukako Kabei

Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life is like a story; it unfolds its beauty and tragedy along with your thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life. — Charles D'Ambrosio

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. — D.H. Lawrence

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

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy — Alison Bechdel

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it. — Michael D. Barnes

Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself. — D.H. Lawrence

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy. — Cus D'Amato

Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile. — D.H. Lawrence

That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they'd recently added a Tragedy line. — J.R. Ward

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

Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING? — Justine Bateman

Calculated risk is an opportunity;
careless risk a potential tragedy. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. — Jean Racine

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

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse. — Dee Remy

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not. — Vance Havner

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way. — James Mangold

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs. — Joseph Stowell

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

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

Let your Tragedy Make You. Not Break You.
-Trudy Love
Learning to Live
R.D. Cole — R.D. Cole

Perhaps it is both the tragedy of life and the blessing of life that most moments only happen once. — Glenn Haybittle

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member. — Ann Brashares

God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees. — Shannon L. Alder

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy. — Eric Drooker

Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama. — Maryln Schwartz

This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.
This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. — Rachel Higginson

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? — Christopher Marlowe

Sometimes, tragedy is the only wake-up call. — Redd Kaiman

I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy. — Melissa McCarthy

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph. — Tony Snow

Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy. — Anne Fortier

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets. — Patti Smith

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

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one. — Theodore Roosevelt

Life is not tragic. The tragedy is what people do to themselves and to each other. — Marty Rubin

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless. — Jean Anouilh

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. — Marty Rubin

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. — Heywood Broun

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy. — Carter Burwell

All hero's are born out of the embers that linger after the fire of great tragedy.
Children of Ankh series — Kim Cormack

In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour. — E. Lockhart

Short on glamour and long on tragedy. — Quentin Reynolds

In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians. — Rand Paul

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

Love, like life, isn't a tragedy or a fairy tale - it's both. — Jeannine Allison

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you. — Mel Brooks

Life is nothing but surprises. Even our tragedies turn out different than we expect. — Marty Rubin

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. — Mark Twain