Tragedy Quotes
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I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles of spirituality. Taken for its time, it was an extraordinarily progressive declaration of principle. It is also extraordinary for a Christian to read: for example, there are more references to Mary than in the Gospels. The tragedy is that it has been so warped and misapplied.
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It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.
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That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.
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Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.
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Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.
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The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war.
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The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
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The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.
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The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
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Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.
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That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.
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Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!
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When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
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When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
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I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
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I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
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London waited, waited in patience, orderly, content to stare steadfastly at nothing, deriving no satisfaction for their weakness but the sense of being as near as it was humanly possible to be to the scene of a tragedy.
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Life is a tragedy of nutrition.
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It was the tragedy of women to be lusted after and stolen in the night.
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Our focus is on our two guys. We're praying about their health, to overcome this tragedy.
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The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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It’s a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent.
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The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
