Tragedy Quotes - Page 12

• One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

  Myles Munroe

  Watches, Life Is, Untapped Potential

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Purpose for Living”, p.16, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.

  Ernest Cline

  Cereal, Vintage, Civilization

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• I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

  Alison Bechdel

  Drama, Parent, Relief

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question.

  Mervyn Peake

  Pain, Real, Doors

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• Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Squares, Kabul, Miles

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• When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Running, Book, Long

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.273, Serpent's Tail

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• If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

  James Lee Burke

  Skins, Who We Are, Forget

  James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

  Gavin Extence

  Mixtures, Want, Comedy

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• The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually strong consciences. ... they're acutely aware of the consequences of a lapse in their own behavior.

  Susan Cain

  Strong, People, Lapses

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.137, Broadway Books

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• ..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

  Richelle Mead

  Sage, Skinny, Calories

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.40, Penguin

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• Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, Justice, Silence

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• If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so full of tragedy, "if we feel ourselves, who we are together, becoming lost in time, I don't want to Sleep. I want to say good-bye when I'm still me and you're still you.

  Nalini Singh

  Sleep, Ideas, Bye

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• Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Triumph, May

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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• Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.

  Eustace Haydon

  Time, Stars, Triumph

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• The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Imagination, Experience, World

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials.

  Henri Matisse

  Happiness, Light, People

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.140

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• The tragedy of love is indifference.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Indifference

  The Trembling of a Leaf ch. 4 (1921)

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• 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

  Marriage, Felicity, Deeper

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.257, Courier Corporation

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• The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Music, Attitude, Destiny

  "The Glass Bead Game". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1943.

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• We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, People, Lasts

  "35 Who Made a Difference: Wynton Marsalis". www.smithsonianmag.com. November 01, 2005.

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• In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said

  Tony Benn

  Believe, Politics, Ends

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• The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Religion, Isolation, Dues

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• To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

  John C. Maxwell

  Single, Hurt, Moving

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.78, Harper Collins

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• It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people.

  Anton Balasingham

  Ocean, Sadness, People

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