Browsing Topic Best Tragedy Quotes

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

It’s difficult to follow your dream. It’s a tragedy not to.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.

The inevitable demise of the U.S. on the world stage is cheered by the majority of the planet. The tragedy is that, as it goes down, it is determined to take so many others down with it.

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

It’s important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

I’m afraid you can’t create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters … we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.

It’s a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.

You can’t make flivers without steel – and you can’t make tragedies without social instability. The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get. They’re well off; they’re safe; they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they’re so conditioned that they pratically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave.

Life’s Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

War’s tragedy is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

I think the tragedy of Barack Obama’s presidency is that although a lot of people around the world really admire Barack Obama a lot, they don’t admire the American political and economic model as much as they used to.

A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals–that they can’t help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.