Tragedy Quotes

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!

My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.

I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

I think this issue of climate change is truly important, and that it is a major tragedy how poorly it's been handled.

The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an obvious tragedy being talked about.

Everybody is so sure about everything these days. Just look at your horrible Facebook feed on the most recent tragedy that people are commenting on.

I couldn’t remember the last time I had stayed up into the squeaky hours of the night because I couldn’t put a book down, and that was a tragedy.

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

We must believe, but we can't believe. Perhaps this is the tragedy that some of us see in Obama: a change we can believe in and the crushing realisation that nothing will change.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a period tragedy. I'm curious to know what misconceptions this could trigger

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books

Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.

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

Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.

What to us may seem like a tragedy when it happens eventually can form itself into a gift.

It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.