The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
Allen Klein

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
Maggie Gallagher

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

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 worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
Jonas Salk

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

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
George P. Baker

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

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.
Dick Cheney

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

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
Albert Claude

This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our next record tragedy, it traditionally will probably change the distribution again and it will get held up again.
Kerry King

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

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

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

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

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

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

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