Top 1200 Tragedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

We demand that people don't deny the Holocaust, and we can't ignore the tragedy of another nation.

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.” In other words, it is better to lose your life than to waste it. If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. This is not a book about how to avoid a wounded life, but how to avoid a wasted life. Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

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

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.

Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.

I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

The way you get through tragedy is to look at the good things in life.

I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.

Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.

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

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

If your timing is not correct then comedy will become tragedy.

That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment.

I have been to Kargil, and I have seen the tragedy that both the Indians and the Pakistanis faced.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

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

I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

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

You don't have to wait for a tragedy to occur to rush to help those in need.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

I think if you understand your role, comedy won't create any tragedy.

I guess some of us are just born with Tragedy in our blood

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

I know the truth of North Korea. The oppression and their tragedy. It cannot be silenced.

If you could envision... the meaning of a tragedy... you might be surprised to hear, its you and me.

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.