Tragedy Quotes - Page 18

• It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.

  T. H. White

  Innocence, Enough, Seems

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.276, Penguin

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• LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Body, Comedy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.548, Wordsworth Editions

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• When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that day's shelter or the next day's meal. It's a shame, even a tragedy, how many people do not get to think about the future. Technology coupled with wise leadership not only solves these problems but enables dreams of tomorow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wise, Country, Dream

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• Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Minors

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• There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it to deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. If it were to touch us it would cripple us or make saints of us; but, for the most part, it does not touch us. We cannot allow it to.

  Neil Gaiman

  Pain, Loss, Unique

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• In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

  Charlie Chaplin

  Attitude, Laughing, Insane

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• Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hungry, Hours

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.140, Virginia Woolf

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• Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes: Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.

  Bill Watterson

  Play, Numbers, Special

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Order, Important, Woe

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• But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

  Garth Nix

  Adventure, Ifs, Survived

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #3: Drowned Wednesday”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Thinking, Tragic

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Divine Invasion”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

  Johnny Cash

  Love, Mother, Song

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• I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would go to the local library and take out as many as I could, and then lock myself in the bedsit and read solidly for a week. I went for old books, the older the better - Tolstoy, Poe, Jacobean tragedies, a dusty translation of Laclos - so that when I finally resurfaced, blinking and dazzled, it took me days to stop thinking in their cool, polished, crystalline rhythms.

  Tana French

  Book, Thinking, Years

  "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, January 30, 2007.

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• It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

  George Orwell

  Half, Way, Late

  George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you're afraid some day you might lose it.

  Nora Roberts

  Party, Next Steps, Might

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.221, Penguin

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• Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the best of the time we have. And go down shooting, naturally.

  Mira Grant

  Miracle, Forever, Shooting

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• I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.

  Ilona Andrews

  Love Is, Men, Laughing

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• It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Language, Force, Standards

  Andrea Dworkin (2009). “Intercourse”, p.192, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Believe, Church

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• That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

  Henry Miller

  Equal, Situation

  Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

  Steven Herrick

  Men, Calm, Walks

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• The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

  Michael Gurian

  Self Worth, Boys, Men

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• This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here I am, lying on a cold pavement and it is not the dying I care about; it has no more meaning this morning that it did yesterday. But never again will I see those I love, and if that is what dying is about then it really is the tragedy they say it is.

  Muriel Barbery

  Morning, Lying, Mean

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.

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• And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Needs, Platonic Love, Knows

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.38, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

  Jane Urquhart

  Drunk, Austin, Would Be

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