Quotes about Tragedy
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.
— George W. Bush
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
— George W. Bush
Our lives are best understood, and our sorrows are best borne, when they are recognized as "playing" within a drama that God himself entered, in the person of his Son, so that the human drama might become, through the redemption, a divine comedy, not a cosmic tragedy or absurdity.
— George Weigel
Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.
— Elbert Hubbard
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
— Mark Batterson
You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.
— Victor Hugo
Si tout autour de moi, est monotone et décoloré, n'y a-t-il pas en moi une tempête, une lutte, une tragédie?
— Victor Hugo