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Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you're afraid some day you might lose it.

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

So, the great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage. And the tragedy of life is to fail in that test and so fail to qualify to return in glory to our heavenly home.

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

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

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

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.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.