Tragedy Quotes And Sayings

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“Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
– David Herbert Lawrence

“Tragedy is a literary concept.”
– David Hockney

“It isn’t fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she’s taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.”
– Dee Dee Myers

“What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.”
– Dennis Hastert

“I believe every abortion is a tragedy.”
– Diane Abbott

“There’s every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.”
– Dick Cheney

“To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”
– Edward Abbey

“Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.”
– Edward Bond

“I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.”
– Eli Roth

“The film, ‘Aftershock,’ for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.”
– Eli Roth

“Sometimes I am asked if I know ‘the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don’t even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.”
– Elie Wiesel

“I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can’t sit back and say, ‘Oh why me.’ Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?”
– Eric Davis

“Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.”
– Ezra Pound

“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter‘s unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.”
– Gene Tierney

“After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means – and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.”
– George Pataki

“I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.”
– George W. Bush

“Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.”
– George W. Bush

“The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.”
– George W. Bush

“An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.”
– Gerald R. Ford

“The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.”
– Germaine Greer

“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”
– Gilda Radner

“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.”
– H. L. Mencken

“Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It’s much too strict, but it’s a hell of a teacher.”
– Harlan Coben

“The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.”
– Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films.”
– Harvey Weinstein

“Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.”
– Havelock Ellis

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