Tragedy Quotes

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, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

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

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'

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

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

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

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

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 emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

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 tragedy.

No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.