Tragedy Quotes

At the beginning of the war…I had to look in on the War Office, and in a room I found a fellow…What ...

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and wher...

... the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of the...

Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a...

The satyr, as the Dionysiac chorist, dwells in a reality sanctioned by myth and ritual. That tragedy...

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she ...

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has...

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not on...

Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International) - Gabriel GarcÍA MÁRquez (Highlight: 5; Note: 0)---...

Natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial. The individual benefits as an individua...

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, ...

We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great t...

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with coura...

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignoran...

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not s...

To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is ri...

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's...

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with th...

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In t...

It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that...

As a lord was heldfor the strength of his body and stoutness of heart.Much lore he learned, and love...

I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.

Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies?

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to ...

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness...

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. ...

Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".

The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle ...

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is ...

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.""I suppose one could say th...

The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. Yo...

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth,...

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. ...

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious ...

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary....

Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; fo...

...this two-way hatred. I don’t understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn'...

Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what...

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even so...

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I ex...

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to sa...

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there ca...

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as norma...

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after ...

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility...

Humor is tragedy plus time.

...trust in God could impose an additional burden on good people slammed to their knees by some sens...

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

We wear the mask that grins and lies.It shades our cheeks and hides our eyes.This debt we pay to hum...

In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous s...

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and persona...

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

Your heart doesn't think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn't consider the relativity of tragedy when i...

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be...

Our word Tragedy comes from the Greek, tragos-ode: “The song of the goat.” Anybody who has ever hear...

No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, ...

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious reg...

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the ...

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ...

Then she gave one last burst of music. The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingere...

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us...

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail,...

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have reboun...

– The life of the worlds is a roaring river, but Earth’s is a pond and a backwater.– The sign of doo...

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility t...

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if peo...

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the...

Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the bea...

One hardly need believe that the events in your life are actually planned as bolts from the blue, se...

My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy...

After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's Go...

There were six hundred thousand Indian troops in Kashmir but the pogrom of the pandits was not preve...

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there ...

I can't go on, I'll go on.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in h...

A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences...

When you make a film, if you are an insider, you're usually the last person to know that your film i...

Francis stared down at the Duchess of York's letter. He swallowed, then read aloud in a husky voice,...