Tragedy Quotes - Page 39

• The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Animal, World, Buffalo

  Theodore Roosevelt (2000). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter”, p.169, Modern Library

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• But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.

  William Osler

  Men, Doctors, Routine

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.49, ACP Press

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• The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

  Steve Jobs

  Winning, Funny Business, Lost

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• My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.

  Errol Flynn

  Dream, Wind, Tree

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.413, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.

  Edward Teller

  Hands, Clean, Hiroshima

  Edward Teller, Allen Brown, Jr. (1975). “The Legacy of Hiroshima”, Greenwood Press

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• A loss leads to victory, being fired leads to a dream job..I find comfort in believing that good things can grow out of tragedy.

  Ronda Rousey

  Dream, Jobs, Believe

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• I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.

  William Shatner

  Stars, Talking, Miracle

  Source: collider.com

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• One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Jobs, School, Math

  Source: collider.com

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• For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Men, Genius, Minutes

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• We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Religious, Hatred, Students

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• The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.

  Jeff MacNelly

  Opera, Language, Taxes

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• I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.

  John Jackson Miller

  Different, How You Feel, Feels

  John Jackson Miller (2013). “Kenobi: Star Wars Legends”, p.126, Del Rey

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• The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

  Criss Jami

  Pain, Men, Taught

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

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• As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.

  Criss Jami

  Selfish, Patriotic, Routine

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.106, Criss Jami

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• Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted in being foolish. I find enjoyment in the powerful and terrible struggles of life; and the capability of experiencing something, of learning something, gives me pleasure.

  August Strindberg

  Powerful, Struggle, People

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• The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.

  William Hazlitt

  Sports, Strong, Justice

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”

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• Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Essence, Farce, Comedy

  1833 Table Talk (published 1835), entry for 25 Aug.

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• There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

  Indira Gandhi

  Dark, Past, Shadow

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

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• All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.

  Stephen Leacock

  World, Humour, Collapse

  Stephen Leacock (2010). “My Remarkable Uncle”, p.114, New Canadian Library

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• While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Hero, Angel, Men

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• What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason — instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it’s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods.

  David Simon

  Selfish, Oedipus, People

  "Stealing Life" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2007.

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• Magic likes a good tragedy, too.

  Adam Rex

  Magic, Likes

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• Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that we are all vulnerable, even in the heartland. I was in college at Rice University in 1995. All of us remember exactly where we were that day, and we will never forget the 168 people who were killed. Terrorism is evil, yet the incredible response to tragedies like we experienced in Oklahoma 20 years ago serve to highlight the strength, resolve, and resiliency of the American people to the world.

  Jim Bridenstine

  Heart, College, Cities

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• I guess some of us are just born with Tragedy in our blood

  Richard Kelly

  Blood, Born

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• Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

  Izzeldin Abuelaish

  Defeat, Ends, Our Lives

  Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011). “I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity”, p.212, Bloomsbury Publishing

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