333 Tragedy Quotes for You to Enjoy

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness. Ronnie Corbett

Life Happy Darkness Happy Life Never Had Although Tragedy Very Any Suffered

Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. W. E. B. Du Bois

Today War Man Problem Black Nation Before Those Degraded Civil Civil War Similar Colonial Colored Imperialism Had Cheap Raw Raw Material Like Souls Built Material South Tragedy Labor Greek America After Central Used Manufacture Whom Oligarchy Million Four Raising

Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films. Harvey Weinstein

Art Great Man World Path Men Films Great Artist Cares Incredible Collapsed Would About He Instead Most Make Him Became His Tragedy Artist Roman Happened Place Who Who Cares Filled Deeply

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else. Aaron Allston

Comedy Somebody Else Something Between Tragedy Difference Happening While Awful

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy. Ai Weiwei

Music Nation Tragedy

Benghazi is not a scandal; Benghazi was a tragedy. Alan Colmes

Benghazi Scandal Tragedy

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians. Alan Hovhaness

Mind Lost He Know Armenians Him Because Around His Tragedy

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. Albert Claude

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You Comedy Will Become Always Tragedy Stretch

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd. Alex Cox

Hope Thomas Tragedy Spanish Based Play

Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it. Alex Lifeson

Life Hope Time You Holding Thinking Too Out Neil Promising Point Recovery Obviously Were His Tragedy Get After Certainly

Fear makes us do things we would otherwise never agree to do, and people can be emotionally manipulated into believing something during times of great stress and tragedy. Alexandra Bracken

Great People Fear Stress Otherwise Would Something Never Emotionally Makes Tragedy Times Manipulated Us Agree Believing Things

In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals, laid our corpses on the beds of neighbors, held our sorrows up in full light. We were volume ten about our madness and disorder, even if we were also resilient and enduring and tough. Alexandra Fuller

Madness Light Tough Dramas Back Our Corpses Neighbors Corridor About Ten Hospitals Volume Shared Bled Also Sorrows Beds Were Tragedy Up Southern Africa Enduring Laid Central Them Us Held Disorder Full Even Publicly Resilient

The millennial generation wants to express every feeling to feel like you're connected to it, and there's something very dark about tragedy that people are drawn to. Alia Shawkat

You Generation People Dark Feeling Every Drawn About Something Feel Like Tragedy Very Wants Connected Express

Somewhere along the line, positive thinking seems to have been confused with magical thinking. There's a notion that if you think positively enough, you can make anything happen by using the power of your mind. All the positive thinking in the world won't deliver good fortune or prevent tragedy from striking. Amy Morin

Positive Good You Confused World Mind Somewhere Power Think Thinking Enough Positive Thinking Striking Positively Magical Seems Prevent Deliver Along Make Line Been Tragedy Happen Anything Your Notion Fortune Using Good Fortune

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy. Amy Tan

Life Time Happy People Mother Unhappy Somebody First Think Has-Been Case She Terrible First Time Alzheimer Been Tragedy Different Her

The existence of the Taliban, in my view, is a tragedy for Afghanistan. We as Americans need to understand our role in helping bring that tragedy about. So I think it's important to look at the stories about why these people are fighting. Anand Gopal

I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all. Andre Dubus III

Success Book Writing Dark Word Fog Believe Write Never Had Head House Because Surprised Tragedy Trying Sand Really

Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances. Andrei Codrescu

Way Immediate Circumstances Poets Greatest Tragedy Than Even Express Larger

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections. Andrew Coyle Bradley

Work Addition Sections Constant Rises More Through Emotional Exciting Tension Falls Tragedy Pitch Regular Less Sequence

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time. Angela Carter

The biggest tragedy we had early on was when Bon Scott died. Angus Young

Had Tragedy Scott Died Biggest Early

At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy. Anna Maria Chavez

Bullying Signs Girl Girl Scouts Before Control Situation Awareness Extricate Recognize Out Bad Spirals About Bad Situation Terrible Sort Another How Tragedy Effects Scouts Committed Any Ends Themselves Cyber Teaching Raising

Tragedy Quotes

No more tragedy quotes