Quotes About Tragedy

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

All I'm saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who can control all those things, or is he the god that we don't even trust with our daily lives... As long as there's prayer and exams, as long as there's games, there will be prayers.

I think people find a lot to relate to in my social media, being a mom, and trying to live my best life, and I'm a fan of Oprah and other things people are fans of, and my heart breaks when there are tragedies, like everyone else, and I want to help.

I've done two Shakespeare tragedies, so I'd desperately like to do comedy. It would be nice not to die.

I haven't had too many tragedies in my family where there has been a loss or even an accident. I've been lucky in that sense.

I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.

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

I think when tragedies happen a lot of people go to therapy, psychiatrists, whatever, because they need to have someone to talk to. There's thousands of people a night that I get to talk to, by way of my music.

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

I've had a lot of big impacts before the music as far as deaths and tragedies and experiences in my life.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

We will never be defined by tragedy but, instead, by how we respond to it.

Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.