Tragedy Quotes

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breath and their water is safe to drink.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.

Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy.

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

When humans face testings and tragedy, they should remember the angels who are always standing ready to lend their celestial assistance, comfort and council.

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

This terrible tragedy.... the entire international community should unite in the struggle against terrorism this is a blatant challenge to humanity.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.