Best tragedy & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.”

Self Seeing Laughter Tragedy Hearing Climax

“You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.”

Self Left Crazy Tragedy Faults Destructive Self Destructive

Author:Alicia Witt

“I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.”

“The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.”

Humans Kind Self Whole Suffering Secret Events Needed Balance Mass Tragedy Triumph Excitement Midst Serenity Tranquility Attempting Calamity Rushing Secret Life

Author:Margaret Bourke-White

“if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we can, by pursuing our own most parochial self-interest, achieve in some miraculous way a consummation of world order, then we are heading not simply towards great disappointments, but towards disaster and tragedy as well.”

“There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.”

People Ifs Feels Made Important Self Sometimes Fear Alive Laughter Tragedy Anger Angry Superstitions Pagan Relics

Author:Mary Stewart

“It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.”

People Men Want Believe Self Humanity Too Much Civilization Mass Standards Tragedy Crisis Characteristics Unconscious Wicked Gravity Accusation Insensitive

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.”

Way Self Asks Tragedy Teenager

Author:David Lee Roth

“At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.”

Ends Self Challenges Ability Achieve Greatness Promise Overcoming Difficulty Tragedy Tendencies Self Reliance Reliance Rise Above Indication Sabbath Unbelief Adequacy

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.”

Men Way Looks Self Love You Tragedy Defeat Pity Being In Love Self Pity Sloppy

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.”

Self Comedy Tragedy Rhythm Preservation Exhibits Self Preservation

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because I am running from things that can destroy my soul: complacency, comfort, and ignorance. I am much more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.”

Soul Self Running Jesus Failing Risk Ignorance Comfort Comfortable Destruction Tragedy Illness My Soul Uncertainty Midst Serving Terrified Complacency Self Serving Comfortable Life

Author:Katie Davis

“I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.”

Self Jesus Failing Comfortable Tragedy Illness Serving Terrified Self Serving Comfortable Life

Book:Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

Source: Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.”

“I find things funny that aren't self-aware. That don't know they're funny, and I think the same can hold true for drama. If you think you're in this tragedy and you play it for tragedy, there's a self-awareness there that I think takes you out of watching it and I believe it cuts both ways.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Believe Self Play I Believe Cutting Awareness Drama Tragedy Self Awareness

Author:Steve Carell

“Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what I did with my poetry, ask people to feel sorry for me. I got sober and I realized I have to get out of the pity thing; it's not going anywhere for me. I don't want to have any self-pity.”

People Want Feels Long Self Play Able Asks Long Time Tragedy Sorry I Realized Tricks Pity I've Learned Sober Self Pity

Author:Bucky Sinister

“Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.”

People Important Self Social Interest Support Laughing Comedy Behavior Illusion Tragedy Ridiculous Gravity Inferiors Narcissistic Pathology Vested Interests It Support

Book:Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”

Self Poor Tragedy Denial Self-denial

Book:The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

Way Two Real Self Suffering Fall Fear Challenges Worry Habit Losing Tragedy Grieving Destructive Inner Strength Two Ways Self Destructive Losing Hope

Author:Dalai Lama

“Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.”

Source: Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.' He turned. 'You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy.'”

Men Humans Self Evil Race Millions Tragedy Be Good Human Race One Man Betray Betrayed Unimportant

Author:John Fowles

“One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.”

“The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.”

Men Humans Self Action Life Is Values Born Vision Boys Possibility Tragedy Lifetime Raised Males Self Worth Human Life Great Tragedy

Author:Michael Gurian

“No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.”

Self Loss Grief Tragedy Compromise Survived Day To Day Sense Of Self Indignity Mishaps

Author:Kelsey Grammer

“Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.”

Self Names Memories Loss Sacrifice Tragedy Bravery Lays Mourning Shock Self Sacrifice

Author:George W. Bush

“This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers exploit an immensely talented artist's loyalty and trust through greed, self-dealing, concealment, knowing misrepresentation and reckless disregard for professional fiduciary duties.”

“This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.”

Men Real Self Able Spirit Path Mankind Development Tragedy Deception Self Deception Tentacles

Book:Alfred Adler: a portrait from life

Source: Alfred Adler: a portrait from life

“Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of his appetites and assumptions) and more resources to deal with it if it occurs (being better able to put it in perspective and maintain his own evenness of self-mastery). Tragedy as a dramatic form is meant to foster the ethos of sophrosyne or moderation, "nothing to excess"; it nurtures a sense of distance from the dominant illusions and delusions that may infect even aristoi.”

“Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.”

Self Love Is Self Love Hatred Tragedy Idolatry Self Hatred

Book:Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays

Source: Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays

“Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.”

Life Self Philosophy Comedy Stage Life Philosophy Tragedy Ill Waking Curtains Farce Physiology

Author:Charles Scott Sherrington

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”

Self Philosophy Loss Sadness Identity Tragedy Confusion Mask Sense Of Self

Author:K.L. Toth

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