Quotes by Tragedy Tragedy plus time equals humor. Marie Osmond plustragedy The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic. Marilyn Manson millionspoliticaltragedy Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools. Margaret Atwood actorstragedypeople Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. Mario Puzo tragedyrealwish The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked. Mark Batterson tragedyprayerlife-is You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes. Mark Gatiss wellstragedyadventure We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation. Mahatma Gandhi foundationlimitstragedy Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw. Mark Lawrence tragedyhumanitycharacter Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results. Mark Nepo tragedydonefeelings If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom. Mark Rothko colortragedymissing It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority. Mahatma Gandhi tragedymeanreligion The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence. Mahatma Gandhi bombsviolencetragedy Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people. Mark Shields human-traffickingtragedypeople It's remarkable - most remarkable, the way these people manage, from time to time, a tragedy or a near-tragedy to break the even tenor of their ways,' said Mr. Tingley, in a tone of half-humorous superiority, by which he considered that he distinguished himself, subtly and inoffensively, from 'these people. Martha Ostenso humoroustragedypeople I’m haunted sometimes by the thought, what if we lived from that place all the time? What if we went there without tragedy striking first? The very thought of who we would be together, and the kinds of collectives decisions we would make...the kind of world we’d create ... makes me want to cry sometimes. Marianne Williamson what-iftragedydecision You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work. Martin Amis tragedyprinciplespeople 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. Mark Twain felicitymarriagetragedy Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better. Martin Seligman pessimisttragedyweather Humor is tragedy plus time. Mark Twain plustragedy Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it. Marvin J. Ashton mismanagementfinancialtragedy«2829303132333435363738»
