Quotes of: Great-tragedy Keyword

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

The Long Goodbye

Wer mir den Glauben an die Menschen zurückgibt, gibt mir mein Leben zurück.

The Lulu Plays and Other Sex Tragedies

I watched a truck go up in flames. It was hauling cigarettes. It was the first tragedy I’ve ever smoked. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

This is the tragedy of knowing my fate: I have seen how it ends, and I will walk right into it, and nothing will change.

Perfect Lies

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

You're the hunter, the warrior. You're stronger than anyone else here, that's your tragedy.

The Vampire Lestat

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings.

What Are You Afraid Of?

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

The Wise Man's Fear

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

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.

Ben Kingsley

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

Henry Miller

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Joyce Cary

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

Roger Ebert

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

Romola Garai

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...

Sinclair Lewis

The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

D.R. Silva

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

Sun Ra

Human tragedies: We all want to be extraordinary and we all just want to fit in. Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.

Sebastyne Young

There are only three possible endings —aren't there? — to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That’s it. All stories end like that.

Jeanette Winterson

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.

Kedar Joshi

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

Lee Strobel