Quotes on Tragedy

A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect.

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.

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.

They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.

The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

When tragedy strikes, no one is fully prepared to deal effectively with all the responsibilitie s, emotional trauma, and grief that begin to impact people. Our Rapid Response Team exists so that people can find the care and comfort of Jesus Christ in the midst of tragedy.

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

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

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.