Tragedy Quotes

I wanted my new release 'Get Back Up' to benefit Haiti in their tragedy and I am blessed to use my music to help as your purchase becomes our gift.

It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

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 always hides itself behind the normal.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

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

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

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