Tragedy Quotes

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.

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 a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

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.

A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

Magic likes a good tragedy, too.

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.

Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

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.

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.

Get thee behind me, tragedy.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering of the victims

To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.

The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.

It would be kind of a tragedy if we got to the end of four years of Democratic rule without having really tried any Democratic policies.

Comedy is tragedy plus timing.

A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening, that's the most satisfying.