Tragedy Quotes

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

Death, Millions, Statistic

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

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Lives, While

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

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus, Suffering, Christ

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.
Walter Hagen

Respect, Short, Matter

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

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley

Great, Science, Beautiful

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

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

Religion, History, Greatest

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
Henry Miller

Another, Face, Nobody

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger

Nature, End, Once

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Robert Half

Work, Hard, Talent

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
George W. Bush

Great, Best, Courage

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Adam Smith

Real, Poor, Poverty

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
Ben Kingsley

Love, Family, Best

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Jean Racine

Death, Sadness, Enough

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin E. Mays

Life, Lie, Goal

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
David Herbert Lawrence

Truth, Strong, Away

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
Christopher Hitchens

Humor, Sense, Possible

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
Bryant H. McGill

Laugh, Why, Often

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Rita Mae Brown

Human, Everything, Divorce

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

Happen, America, Decisions

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Life, Love, Give

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Tom Stoppard

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
Elie Wiesel

Sometimes, Answer, Asked

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
William Feather

Ambition, Few, Ability

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.
Mike Ditka

Effort, Talent, Situation

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
Judy Collins

Life, True, Suffering

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pain, Pleasure, Shadow

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