Tragedy Quotes
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy
Havelock Ellis
The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature
Arnold Bennett
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King Jr
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Edward Abbey
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people.
Anton Balasingham
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Robert Half
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.
Ronald Reagan
Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution.
Chuck Palahniuk
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno
The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.
Martin H. Fischer
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras.... As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.
William A. Niskanen
Humor is tragedy plus time
Mark Twain
