Tragedy Quotes

The great temptation of life and the great tragedy of life is that so often we allow the without of our lives to absorb the within of our lives.

It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

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.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it seems to me.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.