Tragedy Quotes

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

Life, Wise, Fool

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good, History, Bad

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.

Good, Bad, Silence

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin

Life, Wise, Old

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato

Life, Men, Real

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

Life, Death, Child

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

Women, Become, Mothers

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau

Human, Silence, Words

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Oscar Wilde

Society, Simply, Bore

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck

Humor, Hurt, Pain

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx

History, Second, Farce

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Courage, Moment

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
Aristotle

End, Whole, Action

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin

Life, Comedy, Seen

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

Death, Million, Statistic

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

Die, Comedy, Fall

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats

Him, Through, Joy

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hero, Write, Show

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy

Wisdom, Live, Living

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach

Ignorance, End, Belief

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken

War, Human, Fact

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
Tom Cochrane

Life, Failure, Betrayal

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Walpole

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radner

Life, Die, Creativity

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

Courage, Human, Earth

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
James Madison

Government, Means, Both

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

Happen, America, American

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno

Game, Sense, Losing

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins

Life, Men, Death

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