Quotes about Tragedy

Comedy = tragedy + time.

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.

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

Our lives are best understood, and our sorrows are best borne, when they are recognized as "playing" within a drama that God himself entered, in the person of his Son, so that the human drama might become, through the redemption, a divine comedy, not a cosmic tragedy or absurdity.

Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

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

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.