It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

When I run the world,librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would take it. Without hesitation I would take it all. Maybe that’s how you...

And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand.

Burke said. ”It’s a tragedy for the Snelgroves. It’s a tragedy for my client and for the other officers on the street that night.

OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom! If with my knowledge he...

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people’s failures.

We mourn with you in this moment of grief. Our hearts go out to the bright young men and women who were on that spacecraft. For us in India, we felt that since one of...

You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can’t admire him because of them.

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour

For a dream to die, something so tragic would have definitely gone wrong! Be careful you don’t kill your own dreams.

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with...

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar’s fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.

I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world.

I had tried to express myself, but couldn’t do that because I was afraid that it will hurt someone. I never knew that not expressing myself hurt myself.

It’s easier, somehow, if there’s a reason for tragedy – lust or jealousy or hatred or revenge. We can find in these explanations an emotional tenor commensurate with the gravity of the act. There’s something...

In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, “Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”...

Tragedy is not the second face of the life; but it is the very first face of it!

Life requires us to do things anyway, despite what sort of fear or monster or tragedy or suffering lurks behind that anyway.

It appears as though President Bush wants to exploit this national tragedy to implement an ideological agenda. … What’s next, a special Social Security privatization zone?

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.

The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.

The tragedy that happened at Lamar had a tremendous impact on us within the athletic department and at the university, as a whole. Like everything else, though, life must go on. I remember us coming...

Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.

This is a terrible tragedy.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

The women cried with one another, and it didn’t seem to matter whether you were Jewish or Christian, you just mourned.

could be a new tragedy for French farmers.

A darkness different from Ember’s, but just as frightening…

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND YOUWhen I hold a rose,I see the soft, velvety petalsand smile, becausetucked betweenthose precious petalsis a special gift -the one of a fragrance,pure and sweet.When you hold a rose,you see...

Deana Carter sings about it. Lady Antebellum sings about it. Eric Church. Gosh, not just country artists. Katy Perry. Everybody has a song about it because everybody’s been through it. You find that person at...

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lackof style. They affect...

Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we...

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a...

Nobody should have to die like these people had. I didn’t know each of their circumstances, but I had a good guess. These people had died in terror, horror, and pain. More than likely, they...

How now! Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” Lady Macbeth

The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn’t make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so...

You’re the hunter, the warrior. You’re stronger than anyone else here, that’s your tragedy.

Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.

It’s a small number and everyone knows it’s going to grow. Today’s number will only begin to describe and quantify the tragedy.

The kind of death you should mourn over is the one that happen when you abort your potentials prematurely! Life without purpose is a tragedy!

Some people’s glasses are half full. I’m the one drinking them. Some people have forgotten that Pluto is still a planet. I still remember my childhood. Some people are vegans. I have common sense.Some people...

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it’s enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.