Top 1200 Terrible Tragedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.

The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.

Tereza had gone back to sleep; he could not. He pictured her death. She was dead and having terrible nightmares; but because she was dead, he was unable to wake her from them. Yes, that is death: Tereza asleep, having terrible nightmares, and he unable to wake her.

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a tornado.

I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.

It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.

The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

Every time New York City suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help. And he did it anonymously.

It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.

That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

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

n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!

The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which.

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.

There is something deeply wrong with a political culture which only wants to talk about incarceration in the aftermath of a tragedy.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something terribly flawed about people who are tattooed, above some little something that Johnny had done in the Navy, even though that's a bad sign...It's terrible. Psychologically it's crazy. Most people who are tattooed, it's the sign of some feeling of inferiority, they're trying to establish some macho identification for themselves.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

I think whenever any kind of hardship or tragedy comes along, it usually pulls a family closer together or, at least, hopefully.

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

The decision before my office is not to decide if the loss of Breonna Taylor's life was a tragedy. The answer to that question is unequivocally yes.

I think this issue of climate change is truly important, and that it is a major tragedy how poorly it's been handled.

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

Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation art.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

I'm happy that I worked alone on 'Tragedy,' but it's obvious that I was trying to create something much bigger than I could do on my own.

The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.

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

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

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.

It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.

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

If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.