Tragedy Quotes

• The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Breakup
  • Enormous
  • Soviet

• Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Bills
  • Paying

• To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

  

  William Easterly
  • Cycles
  • Searchers
  • Planners

• The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Responsibility
  • Tragedy
  • Pragmatism

• Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Life
  • Song
  • inspirational

• When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Country
  • Guy
  • House

• There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy
  • Vulgarity

• We train one-quarter of the commercial pilots in the United States, so when we heard about this tragedy we knew the odds were good one of pilots would be involved. It turns out maybe some that were not authorized to fly were also pilots.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Good
  • Fly
  • United States

• I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Music
  • Why
  • Communicate

• This morning a terrible family tragedy has occurred, we are devastated to report that our beloved brother, son, and friend, Sawyer Sweeten, took his own life. He was weeks away from his 20th birthday. At this sensitive time, our family requests privacy and we beg of you to reach out to the ones you love.

  

  Madylin Sweeten
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Tragedy
  • Life Is A
  • Spectators

• I am not afraid of beauty, unlike most artists today. The pollen, the milk, the beeswax, they have a beauty that is incredible, that is beyond the imagination, something which you cannot believe is a reality-and it is the most real. I could not make it myself, I could not create it myself, but I can participate in it. Trying to create it yourself is only a tragedy, participating in it is a big chance.

  

  Wolfgang Laib
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Trying

• We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Strong

• The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see a number of human beings placed in certain circumstances; and we see, arising from the co-operation of their characters in these circumstances, certain actions. These actions beget others, and these others beget others again, until this series of inter-connected deeds leads by an apparently inevitable sequence to a catastrophe.

  

  Andrew Cecil Bradley
  • Character
  • Circumstances
  • Actions

• The rules of engagement are so lax that soldiers are shooting and killing Iraqis under mere suspicion, and tragedies are everyday. There are road killings, killings on the road when someone is trying to pass a convoy and they get shot. Or if a roadside bomb goes off, the soldiers just start shooting in all directions.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • Trying
  • Road
  • Everyday

• The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Humanity
  • Danger
  • Development

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

  

  Alan Paton
  • Broken
  • Tragedy
  • Mended

• What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Comedy
  • Self
  • Rhythm

• I'm haunted sometimes by the thought, what if we lived from that place all the time? What if we went there without tragedy striking first? The very thought of who we would be together, and the kinds of collectives decisions we would make. The kind of world we'd create makes me want to cry sometimes.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • World
  • Together

• Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Afraid
  • Payoff
  • Gigantism

• I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Wonder
  • Civilization
  • Commercials

• History will have to record That the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition Was not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people But the appalling silence and indifference of the good. Our generation will have to repent not Only for the words and actions of the children of darkness But also for the fears and apathy of thechildren of light.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Children
  • History
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Health
  • Suffering
  • Alive

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