Tragedy Quotes
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And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
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My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.
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Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
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We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is carried on. But, it is wearing you out.That is why I say the tragedy that is facing mankind is not AIDS or cancer, but Alzthiemer's disease.
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The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
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But our God is good for a great story—funny stories that are often birthed in tragedy and hardship!
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
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A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language ... not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
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Tragedy levels the playing field.
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Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.
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This is the last chance, and I would like to make a call for negotiations in good will to solve this tragedy.
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
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I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.
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Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.
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I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom
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This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.
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There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?
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In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
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It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.
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For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
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This is an American tragedy of enormous proportions and it's going to take a long time to bring it back to where it was let alone better.
