Tragedy Quotes - Page 33

• Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.

  Katie Piper

  Beautiful, People, Appreciate

  Katie Piper (2011). “Beautiful: A beautiful girl. An evil man. One inspiring true story of courage”, p.264, Random House

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• The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you're going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.

  Michael Meade

  Block, Real, Life Changing

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• Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Together, Mixing, Comedy

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 26, 2011.

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• One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

  David Gemmell

  Wall, Fear, War

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• Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Eye, Cognitive Therapy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3240, Delphi Classics

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• Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

  Eric Idle

  Trying, Comedy, Life Is

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• Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.

  Paul P. Enns

  Evil, Enemy, Release

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• The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon with every day because I know that if I ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other; and to that extent, I can accept myself.

  James Nachtwey

  Ambition, Compassion, Ideas

  "War Photographer". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Tragedies happen, accidents happen.

  Sarah Hanson-Young

  Accidents Happen, Happens, Accidents

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• I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.

  Gore Verbinski

  Drama, Thinking, Hands

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• I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them.

  Laurie Notaro

  Dog, Hair, Would Be

  Laurie Notaro (2011). “It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy”, p.64, Villard

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• 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

  India, Matter, Position

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• We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.

  Ron Kovic

  Pain, War, Suffering

  "The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq" by Ron Kovic, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2006.

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• We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!

  David Trumble

  Adversity, Broken, Doe

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• It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous.

  Khem Veasna

  Religious, Real, People

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• I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.

  Bo Burnham

  Math, Musical Ability, People

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• The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, encourage a masculine approach, even when they are run by women. Yet many designers who are male in the biological sense have a feminine approach to design.

  Tom Turner

  Running, School, Men

  Tom Turner (1996). “City as Landscape: A Post-postmodern View of Design and Planning”, p.132, Taylor & Francis

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• Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power hardly got under way before the combustion engine appeared and, not only took over the roads, but changed our view of machines. We've forgotten that pedal power is a potent form of energy.

  Richard Ballantine

  Views, Car, Historical

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• The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income families have been extensively documented. The primary way that those with low incomes can advance in the market economy is to get married, stay married, and work—but welfare programs have created incentives to do the opposite.

  Michael Tanner

  Government, Opposites, Welfare Programs

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• We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

  Charles Rangel

  New Orleans, Giving, Citizens

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• Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the satisfaction I so much desire, the result is always the opposite of what I tried to get. A complainer is hard to live with, and very few people know how to respond to the complaints made by a self-rejecting person. The tragedy is that, often, the complaint, once expressed, leads to that which is most feared: further rejection.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Opposites, People

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2016). “The Return of the Prodigal Son Anniversary Edition: A Special Two-in-One Volume, including Home Tonight”, p.80, Convergent Books

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• It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

  H. L. Mencken

  Real, Adults, Youth

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.308, Vintage

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• A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life Is, Tragic, Happens

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• Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Believe, Book

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• Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Husband, Home, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.271, Penguin

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