Tragedy Quotes - Page 23

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.

It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the ground that the Japanese were potentially disloyal, the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage during the whole war.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

There is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

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

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.

The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.