Tragedy Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

24 Tragedy Quotes
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“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and our mission is never to let it.”
Plato Quotes
“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.”
Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.”
Dale Carnegie Quotes
“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.”
Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
“Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.”
Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
“The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.”
D.H. Lawrence Quotes
“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness”
Gilda Radner Quotes
“We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.”
Aldous Huxley Quotes
“The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.”
Heywood C. Broun Quotes
“Comedy is tragedy - plus time”
Carol Burnett Quotes
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
Robert F. Kennedy Quotes
“It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.”
Joyce Cary Quotes
“There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time.”
William D. Montapert Quotes
“The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.”
Jonas Salk Quotes
“It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.”
Dorothy Parker Quotes
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.”
Arnold Beisser Quotes
“What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.”
William D. Howells Quotes
“There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
Horace Walpole Quotes
“Union Carbide desecrated India with killer insecticides brought to Bhopal They violated Hinduism All bugs are sacred to Ahimsa's Gopal *** (the biggest industrial accident of all time.. involved several thousand deaths ..as killer insecticide gas killed humans.. ) Ahimsa nonviolence Gopal.. name for Krishna as protector of cows and all beings.”
O Anna Niemus Quotes