Tragedy Quotes - Page 37

I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.

I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.

It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

I've dealt with some tragedy in my life, like losing my brother. That was probably one of the hardest days when I've been tested. But you learn what things are important. You have to prioritize your life with your family, your friends, things you want to accomplish. You've got to get all that stuff in order.

It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.

Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

Your tragedy is God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.

The main thing we should be focused on is the strategy to destroy ISIS. And I laid out a plan that the Reagan Library before the tragedy of Paris, and before San Bernardino to do just that. It requires leadership, it's not filing an amendment and call it a success.

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.