Great Tragedy quotes:

Send

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Huxley
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal. -- Jack Abramoff
It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one. -- Jim Gerlach
It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child. -- Liza Minnelli
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. -- George W. Bush
No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy. -- Orison Swett Marden
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune, ecstasy, that kind of thing. But no, contemporary urban theorists seem satisfied with the merely livable, which always sounds to me like the merely survivable, the not so bad. -- Jonathan Raymond
Socialism has been a great tragedy this century. -- Robert Heilbroner
Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness. -- Karen White
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy -- Jacques Barzun
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. -- Jacques Barzun
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery. -- D. H. Lawrence
Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager. -- David Lee Roth
There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors. -- Luiz Bolognesi
In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. -- Dennis Lehane
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. -- Nicolas Chamfort
What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy. -- Dennis Hastert
I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century. -- Vladimir Putin
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. -- W. Somerset Maugham
It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love. -- Bill Johnson
--
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank. -- Leo Tolstoy
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint. -- Leon Bloy
If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game. -- Bobby Fischer
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph. -- Tony Snow
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic. -- Carlton Cuse
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. -- Indira Gandhi
I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery. -- D. H. Lawrence
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history, -- Antonio Guterres
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. -- Loren Eiseley
To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossombut only if you plant the seeds. -- Steve Maraboli
Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is? -- May Sarton
To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss. -- Chris Womersley
Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy. -- George R. R. Martin
Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom, but only if you plant the seeds. -- Steve Maraboli
Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds. -- Steve Maraboli
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen. -- Philip K. Dick
To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living. -- Charles Colson
The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life. -- Corliss Lamont
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. -- Ray Kurzweil
You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy. -- Margaret Rutherford
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief. -- Elbert Hubbard
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. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world. -- Jimmy Carter
The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us. -- P. D. James
The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy. -- Neal A. Maxwell
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. -- Karl Marx
The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do. -- Michelangelo
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no political will for peace in the Israeli government. They're not serious about political peace because they're still building settlements and demolishing Palestinian homes. That is a great tragedy. -- Mairead Corrigan

Send