Quotes About Tragedy

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.

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

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

One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Geoffrey Tozer's death is a national tragedy. For the Australian arts and Australian music, losing Tozer is like Canada having lost Glenn Gould, or France, Ginette Neveu. It is a massive cultural loss. The kind of loss people felt when Germany lost Dresden.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

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.

People can learn the tragedy of war from me.

In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.

Life is filled with tragedy, with long patches of struggle and with, I think, beautiful bursts of joy and accomplishment. Blessed with those moments, you just try to relax as much as possible and focus on the little things, like the joy of changing your baby's diaper.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

I had friends who died in the 9/11 tragedy; some of my friends lost family members in the aftermath of Godhra.

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

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.

I've enjoyed my life. There has been great tragedy but also moments of great happiness. I've taken both in my stride, and if I were to replay my life, I would do it all over again.

The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were?

Benghazi is not a scandal; Benghazi was a tragedy.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.