#tragedy

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#american #divided #europe #into #leaving

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#look #only #participate #tragedy

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#each #few #hundredths #luck #only

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cannot #coexist #hiroshima #humanity #japan

I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#compassion #death #empathy #mourning #objectivity

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. ↗

— William Barclay

#going #him #insist #know #knowing

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#divorce #even #even worse #people #same

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#humor #hurt #laughter #line #pain

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur. ↗

— Edward Bond

#cannot #occur #place #tragedy #which

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#constant #emotional #exciting #falls #less