Tragedy Quotes

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

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

Tragedy is a literary concept.

You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

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

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.

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible.

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

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

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

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

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

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

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

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