Tragedy Quotes - Page 14

There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war. ... The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war.

George C. Marshall

Military, War, Mean

George C. Marshall's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, nobelprize.org. December 11, 1953.

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War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Inspirational, Fear, War

"On Being Fit to Live with: Sermons on Post-war Christianity".

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That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.

Paul Fleischman

Home, Garden, Circles

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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

Quentin Crisp

Desire

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To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Cus D'Amato

Sports, Men, Boxing

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In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Greatness, Men, Crisis

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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

Maya Angelou

Inspiring, Thoughtful, Loving Life

Twitter post from May 21, 2013

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How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

Vachel Lindsay

Learning, Commitment, Students

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Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

Friedrich Nietzsche

Crazy, Mad, Mountain

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The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Crazy, Rust, Talent

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Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.

Henry A. Kissinger

Military, Self, Play

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But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.

Steve Spurrier

Sports, Football, Real

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Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.

Carl Sagan

Science, Two, Enemy

During a panel discussion in ABC News Viewpoint following the TV movie "The Day After", November 20, 1983.

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Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death, War, Mean

"Death: The Final Stage of Growth". Book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Chapter 5, 1974.

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The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.

Radhanath Swami

Essence, Mind, Suffering

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We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.

John Conyers

Memorial Day, School, Gun

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We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.

Betty Williams

Peace, Memories, Warning

Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body!

Richard Goldschmidt

Knowledge, Exercise, Science

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Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33, like Riemann before him. Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.

Michio Kaku

Life, Science, Men

"Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension". Book by Michio Kaku, March 24, 1994.

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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.

Michael Shermer

Science, Intelligent, History

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But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

Dinesh D'Souza

Thinking, Virginia, Religion

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I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Song, Intelligent, Men

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4159, Library of Alexandria

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We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion, and who can consistently overcome temptations. We need strong Christians who can make important things happen by their faith and who can defend the truth of Jesus Christ against moral relativism and militant atheism. What is the source of such moral and spiritual power, and how do we obtain it? The source is God. Our access to that power is through our covenants with Him.

D. Todd Christofferson

Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

Liza Minnelli

Mother, Daughter, Children

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

Alvin Toffler

Daughter, Mother, Loss

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