Tragedy Quotes

There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

My mind goes to tragedy first.

But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.

People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.

Tragedy brings us closer to ourselves - it's the only thing that does.

Tragedy is the violation of love.

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.

The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on, or someone must write "The End" to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.

The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which.

I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by my attempt at humor regarding the tragedy in Japan. I meant no disrespect, and my thoughts are with the victims and their families.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the air.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.

I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.

I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier

We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.

The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.

Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.

That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.

After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.

I love you." Z squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't be a tragedy, Bella.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.