Tragedies Quotes (page 5)

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• love
• faith
• loving

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. Oscar Wilde

• spiritual
• humanity
• experience

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons. Friedrich Nietzsche

• choices
• old
• wellness

I gestured at my litre of fizzy red wine. “Want a drop of this?” I asked him. No thanks. I try not to drink at lunchtime.” So do I. But I never quite make it.” I feel like shit all day if I drink at lunchtime.” Me too. But I feel like shit all lunchtime if I don’t.” Yes, well it all comes down to choices, doesn’t it?” he said. “It’s the same in the evenings. Do you want to feel good at night or do you want to feel good in the morning? It’s the same with life. Do you want to feel good young or... Martin Amis

• manly
• may
• kindness

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises. Friedrich Nietzsche

• people
• help
• bad

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. Neil Gaiman

• passed away
• good
• time

It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away. Boethius

• life
• two
• get

There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde

• life
• change
• you have changed

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done John Galsworthy

• life
• feeling
• thinking

Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think. Moliere

• heart
• manly
• mans

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• learning
• kiss
• old

The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive) Jonathan Lethem

• life
• heart

There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it. Joan D. Vinge

• earth
• arrivals
• arrival

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy. William Shakespeare

• good
• intelligent
• evil

She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do. Kurt Vonnegut

• hurt
• evening
• september

What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down. Richard Branson