#tragedy

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#both sides #civil #civil war #country #displayed

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy. ↗

— Curt Flood

#happy #i #life #make #my life

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#even #i #shakespeare #tragedy #trained

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#gift #loss #music #out #really

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#child #childhood #daughter #except #garland

The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious that he has drawn these dark tints from a conviction that they are really in the picture, and not from a jaundiced eye or an inherent spleen of disposition. ↗

— Thomas Robert Malthus

#population-growth #tragedy-of-commons #life

Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all. ↗

— Edward Morris

#love #tragedy #family

Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost. ↗

— Barry B. Powell

#experience

The sun loved the moon so much he died every night so she could breathe. ↗

— Unknown

#devotion #love #moon #sacrifice #sun

One hardly need believe that the events in your life are actually planned as bolts from the blue, sent special delivery from a deity who is testing and training you like a lab rat! And that is what we are saying when we fretfully ask, "What can God be trying to teach me through this tragedy? ↗

— Robert M. Price

#tragedy #humor