Tragedy Quotes - Page 9

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also - if this isn't too grand a word - our tragedy.

I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late. Hitler had already found out how to cure unemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occured.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.

Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

I made strength from everything that had happened to me, so that in the end even the final tragedy could not defeat me. And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart. --Antonio

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.