Tragedy Quotes

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless.

On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it.

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. ... Can anyone truthfully say, I don't matter and I don't mind?

The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally.

Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.

But it's a stigmatized problem, and it's a silent problem. This has to end. Suicide is not just a personal tragedy, it's a key issue of public policy and facing up to it requires political will.

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You go ahead, call 9-1-1. Tell them I'm havin' a fantastic time.

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Your tragedy is God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.

Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.