Top 411 Tragedies Quotes & Sayings

People really feed on someone else's tragedies or problems.

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies.

The trend the world over is comedy. People have enough tragedies in their lives.

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

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

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

In a world that contains tragedies, we must realize that they’re vastly outnumbered by blessings

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

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.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

You know, most of my friends are either dead or in jail. There were a lot of tragedies.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

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

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing.

Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.

If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.

Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA.

Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.

It's one of the tragedies of the modern university that it offers little space to generalists.

I write tragedies and things when I'm alone. Chekhovian dramas.

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.

We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.