Tragedy Quotes

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes.

What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward.

The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

It's difficult to follow your dream. It's a tragedy not to.

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.

To love the right person is a comedy. To love the wrong person is a tragedy.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.