tragedy quotes

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

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.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

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

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.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

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.

I can’t explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

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

Every loss of life is terrible.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.

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.

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.

Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.

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.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

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

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

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

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

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

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

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

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.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

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

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

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

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

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

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.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.