Quotes About Tragedy

Although we are never glad when tragedy visits, we can be aware and seize the opportunity to do good in this world, even in the midst of tragedy.

Tragedy is actually untimely comedy

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.