Top 1200 Shakespearean Tragedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Humor is not a sign of weakness. In fact, humor can be your greatest asset in the face of tragedy.
Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy.
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
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.
Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.
When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.
A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.
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.
Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.
Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.
There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.
It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.
Even in the middle of tragedy, we find moments of humor, moments of tenderness, of simple happiness.
It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.
For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.
I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness.
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.
War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.
The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.
To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.
I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would have been a tragedy.
I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.
The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.
It got to the point the last time, at Texas, where every loss was a tragedy and every win was exhaling.
Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential
Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.
As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life.
Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring people together, Other times it just takes music.
