Tragedy Quotes

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?

The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.

There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.

If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together, Other times it just takes music.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.