Tragedy Quotes - Page 14

Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.

We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.

The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

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

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

To love the right person is a comedy. To love the wrong person is a tragedy.

The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a tragedy, and a tragedy for the company. They would have a hard time recovering from it.

Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.

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

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.

It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.