Quotes about Tragedy, page 2

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about tragedy

I just wish Dick Gregory would stop playing the fool, taking black votes.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about tragedy

I want you all to kiss me before you leave.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about tragedy

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

Quote by Quincy Jones about tragedy

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to...

Quote by Ted Olson about tragedy

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about tragedy

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.

Quote by George Pataki about tragedy

We will never forget 9/11, the loss of lives and the tragedy. The heroism of people will remain with us for a life.

Quote by George Pataki about tragedy

And I have lived since as you have in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about tragedy

In the terrible tragedy of the war there was a unique fact: the deportation and murder of Jews and resistance fighters by the Nazis.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about tragedy

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner about tragedy

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Quote by Mel Brooks about tragedy

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel about tragedy

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Quote by Horace Walpole about tragedy

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

Quote by James Maxwell Anderson about tragedy

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Quote by Karl Marx about tragedy

Too much trust is a foolishness, too much distrust a tragedy.

Quote by Jean Paul about tragedy

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

Quote by Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio about tragedy

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Quote by Tom Stoppard about tragedy