Tragedy Quotes

1523 Tragedy quotes by 1108 unique authors

The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and… — Cyril Connolly
The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change. — Len Deighton
If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game. — Bobby Fischer
I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one… — Jackie Kennedy
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it… — Kevin Brockmeier
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United… — Elyn Saks
The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on… — Yiyun Li
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking… — Lucy Grealy
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… — Leonardo DiCaprio
People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust and love that… — Joss Whedon
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal… — Isabelle Huppert
If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such… — Richard Dawkins
I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal. — Alan Cumming
I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by my attempt at humor regarding the tragedy in Japan. I meant no disrespect, and my thoughts… — Gilbert Gottfried
I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. — Olivia Thirlby
Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them. — Juliette Binoche
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of… — Laurence Olivier
Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the… — Alyssa Milano
Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison. — Patricia Neal
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear… — Tom Brokaw
Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING? — Justine Bateman
Commander I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ and because I do I can say this. Private Santiago is dead and that is… — Kiefer Sutherland
Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories. — Charlton Heston
Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents… — Samantha Bee

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