Tragedy Quotes

1523 quotes by 1108 authors

Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially to help those… — Adam Hamilton
If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy. — John Caudwell
Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was… — Robert Webb
I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as… — Jill McCorkle
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from… — Paul Di Filippo
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it… — Richard Flanagan
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. — Richard Flanagan
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. — Charlie Chaplin
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. — Paul Sweeney
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. — Heywood Broun
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. — Plato
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. — Robert Half
The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty,… — George W. Bush
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. — Joseph Stalin
The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless… — John Walsh
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever… — George Pierce Baker
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we… — George Pierce Baker
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon. — Jenny Weber
You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything. — Shannon Hoon

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