Tragedy Quotes - Page 38

There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.

The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.

Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

Woodrow Wilson administration ended in tragedy, with his insistence on governing following his disabling stroke. I suspect President Wilson is often graded on a special curve, because many academic historians identify with him as one of their own.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.

After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.

I love you." Z squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't be a tragedy, Bella.

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.

You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you've had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early '80s.

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.

At the end of a criminal’s life, it’s always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I’ve heard Grandad’s war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it’ll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

So, the great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage. And the tragedy of life is to fail in that test and so fail to qualify to return in glory to our heavenly home.