Tragedy Quotes
If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.
Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.
I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.
It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.
Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.
A loss leads to victory, being fired leads to a dream job..I find comfort in believing that good things can grow out of tragedy.
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
The greatest tragedy in life is not death. The greatest tragedy is to be alive and not know why
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.
I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.
If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.
To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.
Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
