Tragedy Quotes
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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)
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. (Quote by - Margaret Sackville)
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. (Quote by - David Ormsby Gore)
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been coloured yet. (Quote by - Steve Spurrier)
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
The cricket will help people take their minds off what has been a terrible tragedy. (Quote by - Bob Woolmer)
Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine. (Quote by - Shirley MacLaine)
It is an allegory of both the beauty and tragedy of human life. (Quote by - Roy Strong)
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. (Quote by - Mel Brooks)
The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer. (Quote by - KB. Meyer)
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness (Quote by - Gilda Radner)
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. (Quote by - William D. Howells)
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing to use that one talent. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
Life is a tragedy full of joy. (Quote by - Bernard Malamud)
And Wigan Athletic are certain to be promoted barring a mathematical tragedy. (Quote by - Tony Gubba)
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)
A really interesting life has embraced everything from the most magnificent exultation to the depths of tragedy. I would say that's tremendous experience - But I wouldn't say enjoyment is an accurate summary of it! (Quote by - Marcia Davenport)
Giving up is the ultimate tragedy. (Quote by - Robert J. Donovan)
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. (Quote by - Robert F. Kennedy)
It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted. (Quote by - Adrien Brody)
This world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel. (Quote by - Horace Walpole Fourth Earl Of Oxford)
In a true tragedy, both parties must be right. (Quote by - Georg W. F. Hegel)
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Comedy is tragedy - plus time (Quote by - Carol Burnett)
There are no tragedies, just facts not recognized in time. (Quote by - William D. Montapert)
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. (Quote by - Joseph Stalin)
Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits. (Quote by - Kylie Minogue)
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. (Quote by - Heywood Broun)
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college. (Quote by - Tom Mas son)
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. (Quote by - Mario Puzo)
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out. (Quote by - Jonas Salk)
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world. (Quote by - Shirley Hazzard)
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
We... here in Britain should stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred, one never worried about the minor ones. (Quote by - Mildred Davis)
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child. (Quote by - Liza Minnelli)
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
The tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind. (Quote by - Laurence Olivier)
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. (Quote by - Joyce Cary)
'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.' (Quote by - Henry Miller)
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective. (Quote by - Arnold Beisser)
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. (Quote by - Arthur E. Morgan)
The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. (Quote by - John Walsh)
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. (Quote by - Marguerite Blessington)
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. (Quote by - Angela Carter)
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. (Quote by - John Mortimer)
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
It is oft commented that by the time we are wise we do not possess the physical attributes to be able to make the most of what we have learned - the tragedy of life. (Quote by - Frank Freas)
It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)
What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions. (Quote by - Aristotle)
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability (Quote by - William Feather)
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy. (Quote by - Harry A. Overstreet)
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach. (Quote by - Benjamin E Mays)
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
