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The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his 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.

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

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

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.