Tragedy Quotes - Page 21

• Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Misery, Kicks, Ought

  Letter to A. W. McLeod, 6 October 1912, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 1

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• Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

  Stefan Zweig

  Uplifting, Heart, Ambition

  "Stellar Moments in Human History". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1953.

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• Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.

  Howard Barker

  Art, Pain, Giving

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• It is impossible - now, at this point in the long journey of human culture - to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful...

  Howard Barker

  Beautiful, Pain, Character

  Howard Barker (2004). “Death, The One and the Art of Theatre”, p.105, Routledge

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• You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

  Howard Barker

  Lying, Musical, Fool

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• Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.

  Vidkun Quisling

  War, Europe, Race

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• The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Suicide, Survival, Committed

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated females”

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• Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Opportunity, Plight

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.18, Vintage

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• City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur

  Gavin Newsom

  Loss, Government, Order

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• The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Never Quit, Enough

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.80, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Emotion, Photographer, Claims

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• That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

  Rudy Vallee

  Men, Needs, Palm Beach

  "Fictional character: John D. Hackensacker III". "The Palm Beach Story", www.imdb.com. August 28, 1942.

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• Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

  Mark Nepo

  Feelings, Done, Alive

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.183, Conari Press

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• It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

  Claude Monet

  World, Moral, Common

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• I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

  Shepard Smith

  Triumph, Enjoy

  "Five Minutes with Shepard Smith". FOX News interview, www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2005.

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• The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

  Carmen Laforet

  Stupid, Secret, Tears

  Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”

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• To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

  William Easterly

  Ideas, Tough, Searchers

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• There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?

  Auberon Waugh

  Suicide, Boys, Hands

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• The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world.
  The question is not whether they know the Word of God....
  The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  College, Men, World

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• Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Loss, Thinking, People

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• I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

  Karen Russell

  Bats, Caves, Realizing

  FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Sep 01, 2014

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• Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Religious, Grace

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• It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.

  Emmet Fox

  Real, Law, Suffering

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• Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

  Norman Borlaug

  Regret, Past, Men

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Men, Comedy, Tragedy And Comedy

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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