Tragedy Quotes

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

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

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
Rufus Wainwright

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
Idries Shah

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

The tragedy of a man who has found himself out.

Given Iraq's strategic location, its large oil reserves, and the suffering of the Iraqi people, we cannot afford to replace a despot with chaos. It would be a tragedy if we removed a tyrant in Iraq only to leave chaos in its wake.

If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.

Despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have died and that is a tragedy I still believe that it was the right thing to do.
Hazel Anne Blears, MP

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.







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