Quotes by Tragedy Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs! Friedrich Nietzsche crumbstragedymasters People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. Haruki Murakami virtuetragedypeople The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people. Herb Kelleher designtragedypeople I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it. Henry A. Kissinger tragedywarthinking The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. Henry Miller tragedyfearreality The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love. Henri Nouwen tragedysufferingwant That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life. Henry Miller equalsituationtragedy I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept. Horace Walpole tragedyworldthinking All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten. Henry Miller tragedyrealfire You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool Howard Barker musicaltragedylying Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Horace Walpole tragedywritinglaughing A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary. Horace Walpole delaytragedysuffering Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first. Holly Black tragedymightfirsts Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. Horace Walpole passiontragedycharacter You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you've had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early '80s. Howard Warren Buffett greedtragedyyears At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first. Holly Black tragedymistakewar Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies Friedrich Nietzsche madcrazytragedy But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them. Hugh MacLennan tragedysimplenight The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became. Hugh Nibley tragedybook Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well. Hunter Tylo sept-11tragedybusiness«1718192021222324252627»
