Quotes of: Tragedy Keyword

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

Rafael Palmeiro

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

As a rule, we don't like to feel to sad or lonely or depressed. So why do we like music (or books or movies) that evoke in us those same negative emotions? Why do we choose to experience in art the very feelings we avoid in real life? Aristotle deals...

Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Shadow of the Hegemon

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

Benjamin E. Mays

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Edith Hamilton

Remember, it’s the pace that kills, never the distance.

The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop

This was not a love story that ended in tragedy. This was a tragedy that ended in a love story.

Love and Decay, Vol. Two

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

Othello and the Tragedy of Mariam

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

William Barclay

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

Alvar Aalto

It is born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin E. Mays

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

Douglas Kennedy

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

Nicholas Sparks

Game or no, she would someday die, as all living beings did. But that wasn't the tragedy. Nor was there tragedy in being a pawn. All souls are, if not of eternal beings, then as pawns of their own bodies. The game, whatever shape it takes, lasts only...

The Game of Love and Death

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the div...

Joseph Campbell

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

Jack Abramoff

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Aaron Allston

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

Anna Karenina

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Helen Hayes

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

George Pierce Baker