Tragic Quotes
It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.
Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.
I've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral.
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.
When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.
Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.
The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.
Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.
I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.
I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials," said Will. "And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we've eaten.
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.
Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with real comedy, there will be tragic moments in it.
I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.
In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot.
I suppose reggae has always been a hopeful way to protest, and just because the world's tragic doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
Sometimes people say, do you want a drink? And I say, oh, I'd like to, but I'm a tragic alcoholic. I always say tragic. I'm a tragic alcoholic.
What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.
Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results?
The vast silence of Buddha overtakes and overrules the oncoming roar of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues; it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.
My daughter fell in love with Ben Barnes, of course. She's 17. What are you gonna do? That was a tragic loss. He didn't fall in love with her.
I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of my dear friend Ronni Chasen. I have had the honor of working with her for over 15 years. She was one of a kind. I loved her. I miss her.
A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.
The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.
You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.
