Our Friends
Tragedy Quotes
|
|
The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. (Quote by - D H Lawrence)
There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of his hero. (Quote by - Maxwell Anderson)
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
This is a terrible tragedy, not just for those who knew and cared for him, but also for political life in this country, which will be all the poorer. (Quote by - David Blunkett)
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. (Quote by - Edith Hamilton)
I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly. (Quote by - Mary Hart)
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character. (Quote by - Joseph Wood Krutch)
Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy. (Quote by - Eugene E. Brussell)