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Tragedy Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Tragedy
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin Mays
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You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle
than the courage of a final moment;
but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- John F. Kennedy
Tragedies Quotes and Sayings
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Claim Quotes and Sayings
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I claim that human mind or human society
is not divided into watertight compartments
called social, political and religious.
All act and react upon one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love Quotes and Sayings
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fastest way to destroy love
is to make a goal out of it,
because people who are trying to be loved
come from a place that they're not loved.
- Werner Erhard
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage
to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Never say goodbye when you still want to try,
never give up when you still feel you can't take it.
Never say you don't love the person anymore
when you can't let go.
- Anonymous
He that is jealous is not in love.
- Saint Augustine
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
You know you love someone when you know
you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means
that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
- Dylan Thomas
In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust
Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin
When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love.
- Anonymous
To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
Grief is the price we pay for love.
- Queen Elizabeth II
Falling out of love is very enlightening.
For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
True Love burns the brightest,
But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
- Anonymous
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb
Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I won't miss you.
I will miss who I thought you were.
- Anonymous
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato
A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A man never knows how to say goodbye;
a woman never knows when to say it.
- Helen Rowland
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
When I see your smile,
and I know it's not for me,
that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous
Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels
from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved
by the person whom he entirely loves.
- Joseph Addison
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran
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