Tragedies Quotes

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Two, Getting

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde

Mean, Infinitely

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Heart, Two

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Heart, Two

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
Bobby Jindal

Family, Real, Give

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
Nora Ephron

Life, Mother, Understand

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Two, Wrong, Between

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Amelia Barr

Life, Great, Death

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
Johnny Ball

Life, Work, Age

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould

Life, Hope, Few

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
Emile M. Cioran

Left, Present, Insect

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Peace, Blessings

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Paul Klee

Life, Art, Whether

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
Jean Cocteau

Life, Design, Ideas

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

Time, Past, Someone

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
Tony Campolo

Good, God, Evil

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Write, Personal, Terrible

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
Jessica Lange

Life, Age, Death

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
Robert Ballard

Greatest, Place, Sea

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.
Robin Gibb

Family, Sometimes, Wonder

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.
Dave Grohl

Great, Everything, Done

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.
Glenn Close

House, Full, Stories

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
James Bovard

Great, Government, Learn

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
Edward Bond

Said, Extreme, Greeks

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
Charles Rangel

Happen, Give, Why

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?
John Clayton

Time, God, Death

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
Alan Cumming

Universal, Comedies

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.
Mike Mills

Energy, Big, Personal

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.
Graham Nash

War, Important, Try

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?
Andrew Shue

Death, Young, Often

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