Tragedy Quotes
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Edith Hamilton -
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.
Tony Blair
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
Gail Sheehy -
I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
Walter Cronkite -
Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
Daisaku Ikeda -
To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
Simone de Beauvoir -
If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?
Gavin Extence -
I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.
Sam Shepard
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It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.
Naomi Levy -
For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
Nazanin Boniadi -
If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
Your pain’s become the only light you know. You want to punish yourself. You think your life has to be a tragedy.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
Rahul Gandhi -
Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.
Andrew Bernstein
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While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
E. A. Bucchianeri -
The tragedy unfolding in Zimbabwe is driven by one man's ruthless campaign to hang on to power whatever the cost to others in the process.
Jack Straw -
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
C. S. Lewis -
It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.
Larry Hogan -
The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
F. B. Meyer -
We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden behind a smile, of the secret cares, struggles, and worries that shorten life and leave their mark in hair prematurely whitened, and a character changed and almost recreated in a few days. Let us not dare to add to the burden of another the pain of our judgment.
William George Jordan
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
Patrick Ness -
Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.
Gabrielle Roy -
Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
Xenocrates -
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
Lady Margaret Sackville