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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
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.
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.
Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.
Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
It is the perpetual tragedy of all families: each of us believe our congenital pathologies and singular pains end with us.
A lot of people consider 9/11 to be a tragedy, and in some ways it is, but I think there's also opportunity for a lot of humor there.
Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.
The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.
The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.
I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.
he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.
One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.
People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter.
The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.
I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.
I had friends who died in the 9/11 tragedy; some of my friends lost family members in the aftermath of Godhra.
God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.
Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.
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.
Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.
Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
It is the job of government to prevent a tragedy of the commons. That includes the commons of shared values and norms on which democracy depends.
Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.
'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.
We can never completely prevent another tragedy like the Boston Marathon attacks from happening. But every American should ask themselves if their community is as prepared as it could be.
I can't imagine anything that would signal more clearly that life goes on and joy can follow tragedy than your having a much wanted child.
Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.
Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.
Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.
The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.
I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
I am always aware that I've had a special and privileged life, yet it has been balanced by tragedy as it has been for so many others.
Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.
Everything is now moving fast so communication has to be fast as well. But the tragedy is that we have attained this speed at the cost of depth of words.
Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.
I feel like humor and tragedy are all on the same coin, and it's all a part of the same process as humans as we assimilate reality.
The struggle these veterans face receiving adequate care for PTSD and depression is a tragedy that needs to be addressed, which is why I cosponsored the Clay Hunt SAV Act.
The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
