The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.
All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.
There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.
The commission had to subpoena the F. A. A. for documents, had to subpoena NORAD for documents and they will never get the full story. That is one of the tragedies. One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up.
If it can be verified, we don't need faith. . . Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything.
One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are
Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.
I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.
We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.
