Tragedy Quotes

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One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. — Elbert Hubbard
Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of… — James A. Baldwin
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life… — Rebecca Harding Davis
Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of… — John Steinbeck
One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart. — Stephen Vincent Benet
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence. — Isadora Duncan
The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in… — David Mamet
The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last… — David Mamet
Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised. — Susan Sontag
Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. — Susan Sontag
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be… — Alfred de Vigny
It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely… — Nan Fairbrother
Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you. — Mel Brooks
Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy. — Elizabeth Hardwick
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — Billy Joel
The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny… — Alfred Kazin
A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy. — Angela Carter
The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy. — Jacques Maritain
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who… — George W. Bush
Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them… — Graham Nash
In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a… — Shmuley Boteach
I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it. — Dan Quayle
Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies. — Patti Page
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a… — Paula Patton

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