1,113 Quotes About Tragedy

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world's greatest tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in them for little besides ourselves.

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

Every time there's a tragedy, everything goes up.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.