Tragedy Quotes - Page 43

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

Get thee behind me, tragedy.

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.

She wondered if maybe tragedy was what it took to make your heart capable of admitting a new member.

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.

The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.

Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.