Tragedy Quotes · Page 42

I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

— Andrew Sarris

There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.

— Jim Norton

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.”

— Peter Høeg

Every broken heart has one time or another asked, What is important to me now?

— Shannon L. Alder

“Every tragedy that happens in the world happens to my mother,”

— Gillian Flynn

We will never be defined by tragedy but, instead, by how we respond to it.

— Kevin Brady

Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our…

— Anonymous

“Have you noticed how people who most ignore God are the first to blame Him in time of tragedy?”

— Beth Moore

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I for one believe that not enough has been made of the tragedy of the destruction of 6 million Jews. Somebody has…

— Bernard Malamud

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

— Roger Ebert

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the…

— Alan Alda

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to…

— Helen Keller

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be…

— Kedar Joshi

Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was…

— Nicholas Sparks

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating,…

— Barack Obama

The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner…

— Don Winslow

Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem…

— Philip Kitcher

The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national…

— Chris Chocola

The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to…

— Sylvia Plath

“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom…

— Sol Luckman

“The Canopic Inversion by Stewart Stafford In nascent light, their nose-rings entwined, Like a brazen Hathor daughter, Funnelled to market and auction,…

— Stewart Stafford

It is always a great honour to mention a truth which has not become widespread yet. One of these truths is that…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man…

— Oscar Arias

Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So…

— Conan O'Brien

I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of…

— Richard Tarnas

An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the…

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

I follow many tragedies around the world. At one point I [will] feel like I've accumulated an enormous amount of information, a…

— Alfredo Jaar

Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans…

— Torquil Campbell

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

— Anonymous

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

— Mike Birbiglia

Anything that has to do with air travel and air tragedy is of interest to me.

— Michael Emerson

One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.

— Nicholas Kristof

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.

— Horace Walpole

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

— Jonathan Swift

It would be a tragedy for democracy if dissent goes away.

— Mahesh Bhatt

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer