Tragedy Quotes

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

My positions on gun safety have remained consistent over the years, and have been on my website for years. Whether I'm in a tough re-election race, an easy re-election race, or if it isn't an election year, whether there's a high-profile tragedy in the news or otherwise, my position remains unchanged and on my website.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

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

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.