Top 90 Tragedies Quotes

When I look back on my life, it seems nearly everything of interest happened in little more than one decade – dramas, tragedies, major events, pleasures, my close friendships with artists and political figures, the lovely places where I lived in England and New York, the trips to Europe, visits at the White House.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Facts tell us that criminalizing private transfers of firearms among family members and friends under a universal background check system would do nothing to prevent ‘gun violence,’ and importantly, would not have prevented the profound tragedies that gun banners use to promote such a system.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

When I was a child, women spoke to me of how all they had was their memories, how their husbands went to war and never came back, so many tragedies. That chorus of voices filled my consciousness. It was part of life itself.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let’s all be friends in Washington philosophy.

I dealt with the tragedies to Gerald McClellan and Michael Watson. I only had peace when I was away training.

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

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

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

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

My philosophy in life is just to laugh as much as possible through the good and the bad – to laugh at the tragedies as well as the triumphs.

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

Putting a man on the moon united our nation in victory and we’ve collectively mourned through tragedies such as Apollo 1, the Challenger and Columbia.

I think when I started out, when I was very young, I wanted to be an actor and do the great epic tragedies.

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?

It’s one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

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

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story… They are terrible people.

It’s not a radical statement: all of us should agree that we want to make sure that weapons stay out of the hands of people that could use them to hurt others, especially after the tragedies we’ve seen in Charleston, Newtown, Wilkinsburg and too many other communities.

It’s life, so you’re a constant evolution of tragedies and achievements and ups and downs. You can probably get a little bit more immune to things, but whatever is the most amount of pain you feel at any given moment feels like the most amount of pain you’ll ever feel.

The major tragedies in life, there’s just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It’s my way of dealing, and it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than psychiatrists. The story, you see, will get you through.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Tragedies such as Nevil Shute’s ‘On the Beach’ and Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr Strangelove’ are so powerful because there’s an underlying assumption that this did not have to happen. It is empowering.

How children attempt to deal with everyday comedies and tragedies, and mortality, is universal and ultimately such a large part of what it means to be human.

As big a problem as gun violence is for Chicago, it is not beyond our ability to solve. Ending this string of tragedies is our top priority as a city. We are infusing our police department with the manpower, technology and training to meet this challenge head on.

It’s important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

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

Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in ’74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don’t think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn’t come to mind at all. I guess I’m really blessed that way.

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.

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It’s one of those tragedies that I’ve forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Congress can prevent future tragedies by requiring a background check for every gun purchase in America.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican or a conservative, the election of Trump is a national tragedy for multiple reasons. It will go down as one of the worst tragedies in American history. But he’s not a dictator. This happened because we either allowed it or voted for it.

I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.

Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

‘Othello’ is the most domestic of Shakespeare’s tragedies and the one that’s likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. ‘Carnivale’ required that of me, and it was really hard.

I have no arguments to defend how brutal and disturbing a ritual the corrida is. Like all tragedies, no matter the beauty created, there are no happy endings. If it is indeed an art form, bullfighting is the most disturbing I have ever witnessed.

As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward.

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

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences – by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you’ll touch people.

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

I am open and willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a variety of appropriate measures we can take to prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands and mitigate future tragedies.