Quotes by Tragedy Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it. Ruta Sepetys eventstragedysocial The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking the wherewithal to travel can't. There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women. Ruth Bader Ginsburg abortiontragedymean To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens. Ryan Holiday tragedyjoyneeds Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage. Ryan Holiday tragedyoppositespeople You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a tragedy, and a tragedy for the company. They would have a hard time recovering from it. Sally Ride hard-timestragedywould-be This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. Salvador Dali moderntragedyart It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. Sam Shepard tragedyamericafall I can't go on. I'll go on. Samuel Beckett tragedygoes-ongrieving When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. Samuel Johnson tragedysufferingfirsts When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's one of those tragedies that we always see in riot situations, where the only thing that they can lash out against is the stuff that's right there in their own communities. They destroy the very things that help them survive in their own community. There is a level of futility in that. Samuel L. Jackson beverly-hillscommunitytragedy The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. Sandra Boynton chocolatetragedygreek Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. Samuel Taylor Coleridge farcetragedyessence I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art. Sandy Skoglund photographytragedyart It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy. Sara Zarr diagramstragedy Tragedies happen, accidents happen. Sarah Hanson-Young accidents-happentragedyhappens Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy. Samuel Johnson importanttragedymen We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it. Saul Bellow choicestragedymean Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular. Saul Alinsky tragedyfaceslooks If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an obvious tragedy being talked about. Scott Avett obvioustragedyartist Everybody is so sure about everything these days. Just look at your horrible Facebook feed on the most recent tragedy that people are commenting on. Scott McClanahan tragedypeoplelooks«4142434445464748495051»
