(1012 quotes found)
“The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature”
Arnold Bennett
“The tragedy, the true catastrophe, is that humanity continues”
Louis Wolfson
“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.”
Norman Cousins
“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”
Joseph Stalin
“That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.”
Thomas Carlyle
“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”
Edward Abbey
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
Sholom Aleichem
