Tragedy Quotes

This is not a museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments. It is the museum that says -here is a balanced history of America that allows us to cry and smile.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.

Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.

To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.

I'm really depressing. Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch 21 Grams. I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with me forever.

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.

Tragedy plus time equals humor.

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

I am sent on assignments just like guys. I have covered presidential campaigns, natural disasters, tragedies, red carpets, medical stories and more.

Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness!

Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!

Is it possible that a tragedy can look so beautiful? The death of the leaves is the answer for this question!

The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!

People have something on their mind. It almost feels [on marches against now-President Donald Trump] like after-tragedy. People seem sort of preoccupied.

Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.

My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

The clash of religion. We've had to coexist for hundreds of years in Bulgaria, in the Balkans, and we still don't get along. It's a reason for so much tragedy.

The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.

I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.

Nowadays, the tragedy of war is mediated through technology. It is no longer mediated through a human being with moral responsibilities.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.