
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