Tragedy Quotes - Page 4

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

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.

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.

When the doubters tell you it can't be done and all kind of tragedies will come your way, I say nonsense. If you can get to the very root of who you are and make something happen from it, my sense tells me you are going to surprise yourself.

To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

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

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.

Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that's when you start to learn what celebration is. When what you see in front of you is so far outside of what you dreamed, but you have the belief, the boldness, the courage to call it beautiful instead of calling it wrong, that's celebration.