Quotes about Tragedies

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are. Votes: 4

We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them. Votes: 4

Tragedies happen, accidents happen. Votes: 3

Tragedies come in the hungry hours. Votes: 3

Tragedies break us, yet sometimes they make us. Votes: 3

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend. Votes: 3

Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception. Votes: 3

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me. Votes: 3

Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love. Votes: 3

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies. Votes: 2

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. Votes: 2

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? Votes: 2

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. Votes: 2

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. Votes: 2

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. Votes: 2

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Votes: 2

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives. Votes: 2

As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool. Votes: 2

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. Votes: 2

'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it. Votes: 2

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more. Votes: 2

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people. Votes: 2

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life. Votes: 2

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old. Votes: 2

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto. Votes: 2

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again. Votes: 2

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. Votes: 2

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin. Votes: 2

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. Votes: 2

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been. Votes: 2

The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss those you love every day. You never know when the tragedies of this world may visit your life. Votes: 2

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. Votes: 2

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. Votes: 2

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. Votes: 2

God is well able to turn your tragedies into triumphs. Votes: 1

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains. Votes: 0

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people. Votes: 0

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile. Votes: 0

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies? Votes: 0

That is why most great love stories are tragedies. Votes: 0

Warfare is a series of tragedies enjoined by logistics. Votes: 0

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies Votes: 0

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes. Votes: 0

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth Votes: 0

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. Votes: 0

I am a playwright who does not write comedies, or tragedies. Votes: 0

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny. Votes: 0

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies. Votes: 0

In your tragedies you will find your most magnificent opportunities for rebirth. Votes: 0

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal. Votes: 0

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. Votes: 0

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? Votes: 0

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help. Votes: 0

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped. Votes: 0

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies. Votes: 0

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage. Votes: 0

Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them. Votes: 0

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. Votes: 0

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. Votes: 0

Life is nothing but surprises. Even our tragedies turn out different than we expect. Votes: 0

Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh. Votes: 0

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. Votes: 0

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are Votes: 0

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures. Votes: 0

Do not measure the number of tragedies you suffer, quantify the success derived from the. Votes: 0

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved. Votes: 0

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. Votes: 0

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings Votes: 0

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play. Votes: 0

Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time. Votes: 0

All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment. Votes: 0

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. Votes: 0

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it. Votes: 0

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus. Votes: 0

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs. Votes: 0

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations. Votes: 0

It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies... Votes: 0

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world. Votes: 0

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return. Votes: 0

The Italians were getting so accustomed to tragedies and disasters that their appetite for sensation was becoming jaded. Votes: 0

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it. Votes: 0

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. Votes: 0

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them. Votes: 0

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders Votes: 0

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies. Votes: 0

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. Votes: 0

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow. Votes: 0

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. Votes: 0

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto. Votes: 0

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies Votes: 0

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. Votes: 0

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius. Votes: 0

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. Votes: 0

We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You go ahead, call 9-1-1. Tell them I'm havin' a fantastic time. Votes: 0

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears. Votes: 0

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. Votes: 0

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. Votes: 0

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts. Votes: 0

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life. Votes: 0

I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life. Votes: 0

We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics. Votes: 0

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time. Votes: 0

It is sad but so many tragedies can be avoided, if we extend a little bit of love to one another. Votes: 0

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith. Votes: 0

Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in. Votes: 0

But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently . Votes: 0

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. Votes: 0

I am sent on assignments just like guys. I have covered presidential campaigns, natural disasters, tragedies, red carpets, medical stories and more. Votes: 0

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories. Votes: 0

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. Votes: 0

That's one of the tragedies of this life-that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous. Votes: 0

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast. Votes: 0

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. Votes: 0

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies. Votes: 0

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world. Votes: 0

Truth is we are all tragedies waiting to happen; we just have to remember to have the rescue crew nearby when it strikes. Votes: 0

In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love. Votes: 0

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed. Votes: 0

The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love. Votes: 0

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. Votes: 0

I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy. Votes: 0

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest. Votes: 0

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government. Votes: 0

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life. Votes: 0

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it. Votes: 0

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil! Votes: 0

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man. Votes: 0

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me. Votes: 0

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends. Votes: 0

In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion. Votes: 0

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them. Votes: 0

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! Votes: 0

There are so many unspeakable tragedies - around the globe - everyday. I just hope that we, as humans, don't lose our compassion for others. Votes: 0

Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it. Votes: 0

Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor. Votes: 0

We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies. Votes: 0

Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history. Votes: 0

All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, the world continues, history continues to produce tragedies. And it is very important that they be documented in a humane way, in a compelling way. Votes: 0

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide. Votes: 0

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people. Votes: 0

Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity. Votes: 0

I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I think Shakespeare's best comedy often appears in his tragedies, actually. Not necessarily in his comedies. Votes: 0

One thing is undeniably clear. We have all had bad experiences, we have all had tragedies in our lives which help to shape who we are. Votes: 0

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even. Votes: 0

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life. Votes: 0

Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success. Votes: 0

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived. Votes: 0

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent. Votes: 0

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours. Votes: 0

Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action. Votes: 0

One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had a huge amount of energy. Votes: 0

Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique. Votes: 0

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans. Votes: 0

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Votes: 0

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had. Votes: 0

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward. Votes: 0

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else. Votes: 0

No matter how difficult the trial... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by looking to heaven. Votes: 0

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives. Votes: 0

When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything. Votes: 0

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita. Votes: 0

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect. Votes: 0

The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about. Votes: 0

Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward. Votes: 0

It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed. Votes: 0

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies? Votes: 0

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes. Votes: 0

Everybody has terrible things that they deal with. Everybody. Just because you're some big shot rock star doesn't mean you're immune to having these awful tragedies in your life. Votes: 0

Saga of Tristan and Danika. The battles and the victories. The defeats and the triumphs. The tragedies and the trials. Somewhere in the middle, I had him tearing up," Votes: 0

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments. Votes: 0

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us. Votes: 0

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy. Votes: 0

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy. Votes: 0

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost. Votes: 0

History is orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured. Votes: 0

We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies. Votes: 0

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps. Votes: 0

Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness. Votes: 0

Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence...and many of their tragedies are a consequence of so-called human brilliance. Votes: 0

You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies. Votes: 0

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured. Votes: 0

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven. Votes: 0

Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time. Votes: 0

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways. Votes: 0

The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope, Votes: 0

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white. Votes: 0

The tragedies of our past are the stepping stones for us to reach the happy endings of our tomorrows. Guilt is not going to help you become a better person. Acceptance will. Votes: 0

Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies ... Tod LangleyI have that painted on my office wall and love to stare at it. Votes: 0

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy. Votes: 0

I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable. Votes: 0

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools. Votes: 0

The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime. Votes: 0

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.' Votes: 0

At some level, Trump is more radical than the NRA. In the wake of Orlando, he was calling on people to walk into bars fully armed as a means to prevent future tragedies. Votes: 0

You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering. Votes: 0

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies. Votes: 0

If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning. Votes: 0

Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom. Votes: 0

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce. Votes: 0

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left. Votes: 0

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again. Votes: 0

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument. Votes: 0