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Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

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

The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply not revealed to us. Rather, in the moment of the cross, it becomes clear that evil is utterly subverted for good.... If God can take the greatest of evils and turn them for the greatest of goods, then how much more can he take the lesser evils which litter human history, from individual tragedies to international disasters, and turn them to his good purpose as well.

The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.

The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope.

The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.

The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.

The first time I can remember being on a stage in front of an audience was one that came with triumph, adrenaline and a childlike tragedy. The first time I was on a stage, it wasn't even a music concert. It was a magic show. That being said, the life I lead now isn't what you would call 'destiny'.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.

The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.

The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking the wherewithal to travel can't. There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.

The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.

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.

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.