Tragedy Quotes - Page 21

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to do with health or medicine, but instead are to do with satisfying the desires that are created by the consumer society.

Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

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.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.