Tragedy Quotes - Page 18

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, lets all be friends in Washington philosophy.

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.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

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

Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.

Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.

Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.