Quotes by Tragedy In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too. Lord Chesterfield dignitypassiontragedy In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together. Louis-Ferdinand Celine tragedyrealpast Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy. Louise Bourgeois anathematragedymade Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy. Louise Slaughter tragedyhomeway Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy. Louise Penny fightingtragedypeople Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. Luke McShane elementstragedygames A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow. Louise Hay turnstragedyway You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. Ludwig Wittgenstein philosophicaltragedytree I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent Malachi Ritscher tragedycountryworld To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness. Malachy McCourt losesparenttragedy Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt. Malcolm Lowry guilttragedyadd I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy. Madeleine L'Engle optimismtragedybelieve You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies. Marc Chagall flowertragedymean It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God. Mahatma Gandhi tragedyhandspeople It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind. Marcel Proust tragedymindpeople It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real. Margaret Cho tragedyrealpast Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington germanytragedylove My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita. Mahatma Gandhi gitatragedyteaching I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them. Marian Seldes tragedyplaythinking Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation. Marie Taylor Collins Swabey tragedyevilcharacter«2728293031323334353637»
