Tragedy Quotes - Page 36

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

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

Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.

A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?

Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

It's easy enough to predict that there will be conflict, but you place yourself in a maelstrom when you offer a view about the conflict, and I don't have an investment in one side or the other; I feel compassion for both sides. I've spent a fair amount of time in Gaza and Israel, done a lot of reporting and lived over there, and the tragedy is sometimes overwhelming. At the same time, America does have an investment in what happens.

In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity.

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity

The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.

He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts 'but to experience certain emotions and to be put in a certain disposition.' Hence his famous literary theory that tragedy effected a purification (katharsis) of the emotions of terror and pity that amounted to an experience of rebirth.

Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.

Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.