Tragedy Quotes

I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

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 in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

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.

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