Tragedy Quotes - Page 38

• Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.

  Kathleen Dowling Singh

  Growth, Looks, Causes

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• Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem to be lacking, the special effects alone are well worth the price of admission.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Drama, Romance

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• ...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things, a sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Grateful, Thinking, Sacred

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• The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be the person in the photograph that was experiencing a tragedy or it could also be the spectator looking on from a safe distance.

  Alex Prager

  Distance, Eye, Safe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

  Vera Farmiga

  Simple, Childhood, Clean

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

  Horace

  Girl, Acting, Farce

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• In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Party

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• Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Offering, Civilization

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• I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.

  David Lloyd George

  Men, Winning, Influence And Power

  Speech at the Meeting of American Residents in London, April 12, 1917.

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• Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

  John Updike

  Differences, Another Chance, Comedy

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.238, Random House

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• In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Attitude, World, Uniting

  Albert Schweitzer (1949). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, New York : H. Holt

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• The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Regret, Men, Average

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• The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Goal, Wish

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• A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

  Joyce Cary

  World, Injustice, Danger

  Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

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• It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Intellectual, Values

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.33, Vintage

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• The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.

  Philip Roth

  Men, Unhappiness, He Man

  Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.

  Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

  Artist, Love Is, Men

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• If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Men, Would Be, Ears

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• Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it.

  John Dean

  House, Abuse, Might

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• Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent.

  Chris Hadfield

  Writing, Fate, Risk

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.46, Pan Macmillan

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• We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.

  Steve Perry

  Important, Stories, Rebuilding

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

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Vulgarity Is, Comedy, Surface

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• It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies.

  Gregg Allman

  Real, Thinking, Mind

  "Musician Gregg Allman". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 23, 2012.

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• But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books

  Steve Spurrier

  Sports, Football, Real

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• Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Death, Mean, Circumstances

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