Quotes by Tragedy The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man. Gilbert K. Chesterton catholictragedymen Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier Harry Emerson Fosdick encouragementchancetragedy There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies. Harry Connick, Jr. terribletragedywriting Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films. Harvey Weinstein tragedymenart It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect. H. L. Mencken adultstragedyreal My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky. Hayley Atwell tragedygreekjobs Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. Havelock Ellis geniustragedymen A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy. George Bernard Shaw noveliststragedysex There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life. Hazrat Inayat Khan tragedysoultwo The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision. Helen Keller visiontragedysight The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. Haruki Murakami qualitytragedypeople Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall? Henry Blackaby walltragedychristian One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are Henri Nouwen who-we-aretragedylife-is The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after. Henry David Thoreau tragedyfishinglife-is It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. Henry A. Kissinger tragedygreekhistory So, the great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage. And the tragedy of life is to fail in that test and so fail to qualify to return in glory to our heavenly home. Henry B. Eyring stormtragedyhome Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection. Henry Adams studytragedymind I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless. Helen Keller apathytragedyway It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the ground that the Japanese were potentially disloyal, the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage during the whole war. Henry Steele Commager costtragedywar Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy. Henry A. Kissinger efforttragedycivilization«1617181920212223242526»
