Tragedy Quotes

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

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Genius
  • Idiot
  • Village

• And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Comedy
  • Eternity
  • Essence

• The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Achieve
  • Tragedy
  • Fail

• Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Suffering
  • Imagine
  • Protection

• She had a moment of engulfing sadness about this, about the way that even when we’re living through tragedy, the language we reach for, the only language available to us, is secondhand.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Language
  • Moment
  • Sadness

• When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

  

  Stephen Vizinczey
  • Greatness
  • Tragedy
  • Close

• Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.

  

  Katie Piper
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Waiting

• Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Destiny

• September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Challenges
  • Tolerance

• The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

  

  Evelyn Nesbit
  • Tragedy
  • Died

• A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Comedy
  • Difficult
  • Situation

• By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Inspired
  • Tragedy
  • Artwork

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