Quotations
Quotes:
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.
View quotes by Benjamin E Mays
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
View quotes by Edith Hamilton
The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy.
View quotes by John Walsh
Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.
View quotes by Kylie Minogue
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
View quotes by Charlie Chaplin
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
View quotes by Liza Minnelli
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
View quotes by Joseph Stalin
History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce.
View quotes by Karl Marx
'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.'
View quotes by Henry Miller
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact (Collected Essays)
View quotes by Thomas Huxley
The tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind. (Introduction to his 1948 screen adaptation of Hamlet)
View quotes by Laurence Olivier
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
View quotes by Germaine Greer
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
View quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
And Wigan Athletic are certain to be promoted barring a mathematical tragedy.
View quotes by Tony Gubba
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
View quotes by Jean Anouilh
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
View quotes by Erma Bombeck
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
View quotes by Clarence Darrow
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives
View quotes by Albert Schweitzer
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
View quotes by William Faulkner
It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.
View quotes by Adrien Brody
