Tragedy Quotes

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.