Quotes of: Great-tragedy Keyword

The tragedy of war is that it uses mas's best to do man's worst.

Life

The search for Jesus is about reconciling loss and tragedy to God and us.

W. Scott Lineberry

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

Willard Scott

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Woodrow Wilson

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Robert Half

No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to another, that kin...

How to Make an American Quilt

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

Alvin Toffler

The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

Anne-Marie Duff

All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.

Pat Nixon

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

Roberto Benigni

The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.

Stephen Richards

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

Maxwell Anderson

To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.

Shannon L. Alder

We have to eat to live, and that's our timeless tale of tragedy.

Marty Rubin

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Christopher Hitchens

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Erma Bombeck

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Arthur C. Clarke

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Henry A. Kissinger

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Karl Marx